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



to say, take two battens, one 6ft. long and one 3ft. long, 

 and nail them together uprightly, so that the bottom of the 

 hurdle is quite close, and at the top there is one batten and 

 then miss one, making 48 battens in one hurdle. 



Of course, there should be a frame for them to be nailed 

 on. These hurdles are very good for the pheasants, because 

 they shelter them from the wind and prevent persons from 

 frightening them as they walk past. 



Many breeders have no top to the runs, but merely cut 

 the pheasants' wings to prevent them flying, and a number 

 of pens are usually put side by side in blocks of from 

 twenty to one hundred pens. 



Sometimes they are ten deep each way, and the birds in 

 the centre pens cannot be seen as one walks round the 

 outside. I know one large breeder who has tried different 

 experiments these last few years and finds it answer well to 

 have the pens arranged side by side as I have described. 

 He has the hurdles all round the outsides of the pens. The 

 latter are partitioned off from each other with wire netting" 

 two-inch mesh, and this answers well, as the birds can see 

 each other right along. 



Suppose, for instance, there are ten pens square, that is, 

 ten pens each way, this makes a large block and it costs as a 

 rule one third less in price to have wire in between the pens 

 instead of the hurdles. Still there are advantages in using 

 the wire and there are also disadvantages. Some people 

 have a square block, that is, they take eight hurdles to make 

 a pen, and if they are all joined together it takes a less 

 number of hurdles. The disadvantage in using the wire to 

 separate them in the middle is, the pheasants get into the 



