APPENDIX E 231 



HOW TO BREED FIFTEEN PAIRS OF SQUABS FROM ONE 

 PAIR OF CARNEAUX IN ONE YEAR. 



(Copyright, 1908, by Elmer C. Rice). 



During the first eight months of the year, January to August, the 

 Carneaux may be robbed of their eggs twice a month and they wiP. 

 lay again about 10 days later. 



A pair of Carneaux build a nest, and the two eggs are laid. On 

 the day they are laid (or the second or third day, if the first day is not 

 convenient for you) you take away the two eggs from the Carneaux 

 nest and carry them in your hands to the pen where you have 

 Homers breeding. You look around in the pen until you find a nest 

 with Homer eggs. You throw these Homer eggs away, putting in 

 their place the two Carneaux eggs. The Homers keep right on sit- 

 ting and hatch out, not their own eggs, but the two Carneaux eggs, 

 and raise the two Carneaux squabs. 



Meantime, the pair of Carneaux from which you took the eggs 

 wish more eggs, and within 10 days to 14 days the hen lays again. 

 Now, as you did at first, you take away these two eggs from the 

 Carneaux and put them under Homers. 



Do not take away the third setting of eggs from the Carneaux. 

 Let the eggs stay in the Carneaux nest and the Carneaux will hatch 

 and raise them. 



For example, a Carneau hen lays two eggs June 1. Take them 

 away and substitute them for the eggs in a Homer nest. The 

 Carneau hen will lay again June 10 to June 15. Take the two eggs 

 away and substitute them for the eggs in a Homer nest. The Car- 

 neau hen will lay again June 25 to July 1. This will give you three 

 settings of eggs from one pair in 30 days. Let the Carneaux raise 

 the third setting and then repeat the process. 



During the last four months of the year, take away the eggs only 

 once and let the female Carneau set on the second pair of eggs. 



From 15 pairs to 18 pairs of squabs from one pair of Carneaux 

 may be produced in one year by the above method. With Carneaux 

 selling for six dollars a pair, of course it pays to use Homers to 

 increase the supply of Carneaux. With ordinary success, in follow- 

 ing this method, the capacity of a pair of Carneaux may be doubled, 



COMMENT ON ABOVE. 



We do not think this forcing method would have the slightest effect on the 

 health of the Carneaux. Hens and ducks lay a great many more eggs than 



