FACTS AND ANECDOTES 109 
I have often given puppies quail heads to 
eat, to make them “birdy” and keen to hunt, 
and I have never yet had any permanent ill 
effects from this practice. Quite to the con¬ 
trary, in fact. 
You will be very much more fortunate 
than some of us if your young bird dog shows 
no inclination to kill chickens. Yet it goes 
without saying that the finished dog must 
be taught to let all poultry severely alone— 
or else you will be given many causes for 
worry, or worse, for most farmers have 
chickens, and a hunter's dog must not molest 
them. I had some experience with Byrd in 
the matter of chickens when she was quite 
young. It came to a head when she actually 
killed a chicken and was caught in the 
act—thus convincing me that she had 
killed several of which I had been sus¬ 
picious. 
I took the chicken she had killed and tied 
it to her neck so securely that she could not 
possibly get it off. I used a stout cord and 
wound it tightly about both the chicken and 
her collar. Never was a dog so humiliated. 
It proved a very severe punishment for one 
