56 The Animals' Friend Supplement. 
IS YOUR CANARY MOULTING? 
While birds are moulting, which happens during summer, 
they require special care. When wild, birds can find for them¬ 
selves a change of food which is all they need ; they have, too, 
proper exercise. In cages, they depend on their keepers’ mercy. 
When your bird seems dull, weak, sad, and out of health, try this 
change of food for him : Take an egg and boil it hard. This cannot 
be wholesomely done in less than an hour. When ready take 
out the yoke and put it into the bottom of a tea-cup. Next pour 
some boiling water into another cup upon two or three small 
sweet biscuits (about half-and-half of biscuit and egg), or if plain 
biscuit is used add half a teaspoonful of coarse brown sugar. 
When well soaked, squeeze the biscuit as dry as you can and 
beat it into a paste with the yoke of the egg. You must then 
add one teaspoonful of good Cayenne pepper, not the bright 
scarlet kind often sold, but a greyish sort sold as Nepaul pepper, 
which is much purer and not so hot. Mix well, and serve this 
paste to the bird, taking away all other food. He must now be 
carefully watched to see whether he takes to the dainty or not, 
if not his seed must be replaced. Another plan may then be 
tried. Get a stale French roll, bake it as hard as possible till it 
is like biscuit. Next pour boiling water on it, squeeze it as dry 
as you can and pour fresh milk over it. This, together with 
some extra food such as a little hemp seed, with lettuce, endive, 
nasturtium leaves, etc., will prove useful. All birds need a 
generous diet while moulting and they require to be kept warm, 
though not in close rooms. All food must be fresh, and either 
paste must be made fresh daily. A daily bath greatly helps the 
growth of new feathers. 
Make a Habit of Kindness. —To pet and play with an 
animal one day and neglect him the next is wrong. To pet, feed, 
and care for your own pet and show unkindness towards the 
pets of others is wrong. Charity must begin at home, but it 
must not end there. Habits are strong things if you make a 
habit of being good to your own animals, that will save you the 
trouble of knowing how to behave towards other animals. 
Printed by Miller, Son, & Compy., Ltd., for the Publishers, 
Messrs. George Bell & Sons, 5, York Street, Coyent Garden. 
Price £d., post free, Id. 
7/1903 
