14 w. cook's turkey, goose, \nd phevsant kook. 



Up till the time they are six weeks old, they cannot be 

 fed too often as long as they clear up all the food : in fact, 

 they ought to have a little given them every hour in the day 

 till they get that age, and from then till they are four months 

 old or more, four times a day will be often enough. 



The meal used for mixing up in their soft food should 

 be pea or bean meal, barley meal and sharps, with a little 

 of Spratts' biscuit meal to make it light without sticking. 

 It should be mixed so that it is not too dry and will cling 

 nicely together so that there is no waste. 



As soon as young turkeys leave the hen, they should have 

 a covered shed to go into,open in front,and a flat perch inside, 

 not less than three inches wide, as so many of them are 

 liable to crooked breast-bones through going to perch too 

 soon on round narrow perches. 



Nothing is so detrimental to the sale of turkeys, either 

 alive or dead, as crooked breast-bones. 



Many people make a great mistake in allowing hens, 

 when they have their liberty, to take the young turkeys into 

 fowls" houses, as they get accustomed to sleeping with the 

 hens and become too hot at night. When this is the 

 case they never grow so fast, and very often roup will break 

 out amongst them. 



Turkeys should never be shut up in a warm place. I 

 always keep my turkeys in a house with a wire front, then 

 they keep hardy. I ought rather to say, I provide such a 

 house for them, but they usually prefer sitting outside, as I 

 have a large perch out in the run for them to sun themselves 

 but they like sleeping upon the perch better than in the 

 houses. 



