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



liver. They suffer from that more than anything else, or 

 rather die through it. 



When once pheasants get the liver disease there is no 

 cure for them, the liver becomes from four to six times 

 the size it ought to be. The symptoms of liver disease 

 in pheasants are : the birds eat a great deal of food, and 

 the flesh on the breast wastes away. When pheasants 

 are seen moping and yet eat well, it is always best to 

 kill them at once, as it is a sure sign of liver disease 

 coming on. Occasionally, it prolongs life to turn them 

 out and let them have their liberty, but pheasants should 

 never be shut up in a pen for more than two years. 



As soon as the breeding season is over, they should be 

 turned out and have their liberty, but those who have a 

 good number of pheasants, it is more profitable to turn 

 them out for shooting purposes every year; when that is 

 done, there is not much fear of liver disease creeping in 

 amongst the birds, unless they are fed on too much 

 Indian corn. 



If stock pheasants are a little drooping, three or five 

 doses of roup powder will soon bring them round and 

 give them an appetite. 



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