Pheasants. 



the whole of the coops, and it may be necessary to put 

 down two or three extra hands for the purpose j but prob- 

 ably the best service in this respect will be provided by 

 one or two active guard-dogs attached to wires (Fig. 17) 

 led up and down the outskirts of the lines of coops (Fig. 

 1 8). It must not, however, be expected that the same dogs 

 as may be employed at night-time can be utilised by day : 

 there must be a change of service. 

 Trouble is also likely to arise from the attentions of 



Fig. '17. Guard-Dog attached to Wire. 



poaching cats and possibly marauding dogs the former 

 by day and the latter by night. Poaching cats will occa- 

 sionally get amongst the coops at night, but finding them 

 secure, lie up in the hedgerows or even in the long grass 

 of the rearing-field, and work stealthily and successfully 

 amongst the young chicks wandering for them far afield 

 from the coops. Marauding dogs will sometimes get 

 amongst the coops at night and overturn them, but with 

 careful watching anything of the kind should be 

 impossible. 



