THE 



OREGON 



SPORTSMAN 



In general ruffed grouse chicks are reared according to the 

 directions given for the bobwhite. Foods for the first four 

 weeks are practically the same. The ruffed grouse is somewhat 

 more delicate, or, at any rate, I had two killed by swallow- 

 ing -too large insects (one by a large black cricket, the other 

 by a big spider), which completely blocked the passage at en- 

 trance to the gizzard. Much smaller bobwhites commonly swal- 

 lowed fully as large things but were never known to experience 



Nest and egg's of ruffed grouse 



any difficulty in digesting anything they could get into their 

 mouths. My general impression is that the grouse chicks take 

 considerably more berries and fruit and begin earlier to eat 

 ehickweed and sorrel blossoms, and they increase the relative 

 amounts of vegetable matter eaten faster than the bobwhite. 

 Anyway, I always kept them supplied with all sorts of such 

 vegetable food to pick and choose from. Grit, with charcoal, is 

 likewise kept before them from the first day. 



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