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devolves upon the cock. When this pair is four weeks old, 

 it is taken out of the nest and killed and both the mature 

 birds are concerned then only with the new hatch. This 

 sequence of eggs and hatches goes on all the time. 



If there are not two nests, the two new eggs will be laid 

 in the nest where are the growing squabs and the parents 

 in their eagerness to sit on the new eggs will push the squabs 



THREE WEEKS OLD. 



In this picture the squabs are seen in the 

 smaller nappy, to which they were transferred 

 when two weeks old and which remains their 

 home until they ave killed for market. 



FOUR WEEKS OLD. 



out of the nest and they will die for lack of sustenance. 



The hen lays the eggs about four o'clock in the afternoon. 

 The cock and hen take turns at covering the eggs, the hen 

 sitting during the night until about ten o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, when the cock relieves her, remaining on until the latter 

 part of the afternoon. 



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