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Points on Care and Breeding of Pheasantt, etc. 



Cat-Proof Yard and Fence 



Cats are most destructive to young pheasants and I believe eat a good percentage of 

 young chickens. To make a cat-proof yard it requires a fence a cat cannot climb or jump. 

 Set a post 4J^ feet high out of the ground, attack to this^ost with staples a stout iron rod 

 2 J^ feet above the post, bend over to inside of the yard with a hook on top in order to fasten 

 the poultry wire to this hook. This makes it a 7-foot fence (see illustration of cat-proof 

 fence). Use the 1-inch mesh wire, put it five inches in the ground and attach it to the 

 hook on iron rod. I do not advise using a 2-inch mesh wire because a small cat can get 

 through this mesh. Cats cannot climb poultry wire, nor the iron rod above the post and 



SWINHOE PHEASANT 



it is impossible for them to get into this yard. I have tried this cat-proof yard for many 

 years and found it of great success. Before I had the cat-proof yard I always had 

 trouble with cats and my neighbors. On one occasion a neighbor threatened to do me great 

 bodily harm because I shot his pet cat. I told him that his cat had no more right to eat my 

 pheasants than I had in his shop stealing his tools, but he would not look at it in that light 

 and insisted that I committed an act of cruelty to animals because the cat had little ones to 

 nurse. 



ENGLISH PARTRIDGES 

 Can be bred in captivity same as pheasants 



