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PHEASANTS FOR COVERTS AND AVIARIES. 



Give one siji-t of footl at a. time (just so mueli tliat they eat 

 it clean up), and attemlauce every hour from the time you 

 commence to feed until shut up for the night. Gliauge the 

 water repeatedly during the day." 



AV'^ith regard to the coops em])l()yed for the hens with 

 young pheasants, a form much recommended is one made 

 like a Ikjx, 3ft. long, i^ft. wide, and l2ft. high in front, sloping 

 off to 1ft. high at the b.Hck, and having a movable boarded 

 floor that may be emploved if the gTound he wet. The birds 

 ought to have a further space of about two vards s((uare to 

 run in, fenced in by sparrow-proof wire netting. A g(jod 

 coop of this kind is shown in the cut. The inclosed run, 

 which is proof against rats, sparrows, &c., affords a sufficient 

 ppace for the exercise of the young birds a day or tw(j 



after hatching, after which the c(.)ops should be placed 

 without the wire runs in the spot where the young birds 

 are to be reared, the grass, if high, having been mown 

 around some short time previously, so that the voung 

 shoots and tender clover may be growing for the use of 

 the bii'ds. The advantages (A tliese arrangements have 

 been very ably set forth by j\Ir. T. C. Cade, of .Spondon, 

 Derby. He writes: "There is a great saving of food, as 

 small birds are excluded by the wire netting; and it is alscj 

 practicaljle to put down <i good supjily of food at nisrht, so 

 that the young pheasants may he ahlo to feed as soon as they 

 wake, and not be kejit waiting, according to tlu' usual plan, 

 for two or three hours during the hmg summer niorninti's 

 Ijefore tliey are let out. My birds are never shut in the co(.)p 



