CHAPTER XXVII 

 PREPARING BIRDS FOR THE SHOW-ROOM 



Birds to be prepared for the show-room should be selected 

 three raonths before the time for the exhibition, and placed in 

 coops similar in structure to those used for exhibition coops in 



Fig. 207. — A shipping crate for pure-bred birds. 



the show-room. For the larger breeds these are 30 inches high, 

 2 feet deep, and, better, 4 feet long, and the birds are handled 

 daily to become accustomed to it. Pull out the broken feathers 

 that better ones may grow in their place. It is the desire to 



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