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into a field, and the flock follows the clucking hen as 

 though it were their mother. The latter is shut up 

 in a coop and taken out to the field by the man who 

 feeds them, and when it is let out it is secured by a 

 long line attached to its foot. The chicks flutter 

 round it and, when they have eaten their fill, they are 

 brought back to the farm, following the clucking of 

 their foster-mother, as I have already described. 

 The authorities are pretty well agreed that the other 16 

 hens which are bringing up chickens of their own 

 kind ought not to be fed in the same place ; for when 

 they have seen the little peachicks, they cease to care 

 for their own chickens and abandon them before they 

 reach maturity, evidently hating them because they do 

 not equal the little peachicks either in size or in beauty. 



The same diseases as usually harm fai*myard fowls 

 attack these birds also, and no remedies are applied 

 to them other than those which are administered to 

 ordinary cocks and hens ; for the pip and indigestion 

 and any other plagues which occur are checked by the 

 same remedies as we have prescribed. When they 17 

 have passed the seventh month, they should be shut 

 up with the others in the peacock-house for their 

 night's rest ; but care will have to be taken that they 

 do not remain on the ground. Those who go to sleep 

 in this position must be picked up and placed on the 

 perches, so that they may not suffer from the cold. 



XII. The rearing of guinea-fowls is almost the Guinea- 

 same as that of peacocks. But woodland hens, which fP^gtic''^ 

 are called " rustic "-fowls, do not breed in captivity, cocks. 

 and, therefore, we have no instructions to give about 

 them except that they must be given their fill of food, 

 so that they may be better suited for feasts to which 

 guests are invited. 



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