KILLING AGE OF SQUABS 



A pair of Plymouth Rock Extra Homer squabs four weeks old in the neat, ready 

 to be taken out and killed for market. They are in full feather at this age and frequently 

 weigh as much or more than the parent birds but as soon as they get out of the nest and 

 run around they train off thisf at and become lean. The cere on the bill of squabsis brown 

 and tender and not hard and white as injthe case of the old birds. This is the quickest 

 way to tell them^ from old pigeons, alive or killed. The squabs pictured here weighed one 

 .Dound each, which is exceptional for Homer squabs. 



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