28 w. cook's turkey, goose, and pheasant book. 



a day, they will often eat them when they will not touch 

 anything else. When the young birds are fed in this way 

 they appear to grow even faster than chickens, and feather 

 very quickly. After they get fourteen days old they may have a 

 little French buckwheat, not English or German, as the skin 

 upon both those grains is much thicker, and the kernel 

 inside is not so large as the French. Putting it plainly, the 

 English and German buckwheat is too tough to grind or 

 masticate. If young pheasants get over the first month or 

 six weeks, they are as hardy as any others of the feathered 

 tribe, that is, after they once get their feathers, especially 

 when the second tail begins to shoot out about two inches 

 long. I use a little roup powder to mix in the soft food for 

 my young pheasants, and many other breeders have done 

 the same these last few years, and where it has been used I 

 have not known one breeder out of ten to have a single 

 attack of gapes. 



I provide a special meal for young pheasants after they 

 get a fortnight old, one which will not stick. Pheasants do 

 not like anything which will stick to the beak. 



It is very disappointing when so many young pheasants 

 die off, but this cannot always be avoided. There seem to 

 be more die with congested lungs than from any other 

 cause, that is when they are from two to seven days 

 old. 



This complaint is chiefly brought on through the sudden 

 changes in the weather. The little things are under the 

 hen all night, and are very warm, and if they are allowed to 

 run in the damp grass they soon go wrong, as it is very cold 

 before the sun rises 



