BREEDING AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT 55 



of life will begin to show themselves. Continue your 

 efforts in restoring animation, and when you find the 

 bird moving in your hand restore it to the nest with its 



Freshly Weaned Birds. 



When weaned, young birds must be carefully watched to see that 



they feed properly. 



mates, and in a short time the hen will complete the 

 work you began, and the bird will be quite all right again 



Hand Feeding and How To Do It. 



When the parents are bad feeders the wisest thing 

 to do is to take the young and place them under other 

 birds which are feeding well, first taking the precaution to 

 mark them so that they may be distinguished. Rearing 

 by hand is a troublesome and wearisome matter, and it 

 is scarcely worth the trouble trying to bring birds up by 

 hand, as success so seldom attends the performance. 

 If, however, you have one or more valuable youngsters 

 that the parents have done well to, up to within a few 

 days of their being able to do for themselves, or if, as 

 before mentioned, temporary assistance is needed, then 

 an attempt may be made to supplement the work of the 

 parents. Let it be well understood, however, that I 



