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PHEASANT RAISING IN THE UNITED STATES. 
It is very advantageous to have for alternate use an extra com¬ 
municating pen alongside the one occupied. This affords opportunity 
to freshen the ground, grow grass, clover, or other cover, separate 
birds with objectionable traits, and in other ways add to convenience 
of handling and safety of stock. It has been found, too, that after 
hen pheasants have stopped laying in one pen they may be induced 
to resume by removal to another. One pheasant raiser reports that 
seven of his hens laid 131 eggs and then stopped; but when he put 
Fig. 12.— Breeding pen used on a Long Island shooting preserve. Boarded at base only. (Not in use at 
time photograph was taken.) 
them into a fresh pen they laid 174 more. Perches should be sup¬ 
plied in the shed and also in the open pen. Pheasants usually spend 
the night in the open air in preference to the shed, even in winter. 
In their Asiatic homes, the English and ringneck pheasants are 
accustomed to severe cold weather in winter. They require protec¬ 
tion from storms and dampness, rather than from low temperature, 
and they will frequently remain in the open runs during the roughest 
weather. 
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