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falfa, onions, grass, cress and chickweed, 
are welcome. They require grit, oyster 
shell and meat scrap or animal food in 
some form, the same as chickens. Worms 
are obtained for them by buying wormy 
meal at the mill or grocery, keeping it 
damp and warm for a few days, when the 
worms are sifted out, fed to the birds and 
a new supply of worms allowed to propa¬ 
gate in the meal. If not enough can be 
obtained in this way, meat scrap must be 
purchased. A limited amount of house 
flies, caught in traps, are fed, freshly killed 
by drowning in the traps. 
Pure, fresh water should be supplied at 
all times. 
The birds naturally breed from Febru¬ 
ary to July. They should be in the pens at 
least a month before breeding season ar¬ 
rives. They are polygamous, each pen 
containing from three to six hens to one 
cock. If you desire to keep more females, 
an extra cock or two may be kept, but they 
should not all be allowed in the pen at 
one time, for they are terrible fighters dur¬ 
ing breeding season. Better results, as to 
fertility, are obtained where the extra 
cocks are kept in separate enclosures and 
allowed with the hens on alternate weeks. 
No nest is required, but a little assist¬ 
ance may be given in providing suitable 
places for them to choose their nest. The 
eggs should be picked up twice a day, 
packed in sawdust, bran or dry grain, 
turned every day, and kept in an even tem¬ 
perature until ready to be set. 
Eggs should be hatched under chicken 
hens unless you have a sufficient number 
to warrant the use of an incubator. Pheas¬ 
ant hens do not make quiet sitters when in 
confinement. If incubators are used, there 
should be a sufficient number of chickens 
set at the same time to provide mothers 
for the little pheasants. 
The hens, which should be free from 
roup, lice and scaley leg, should be pro¬ 
vided with a dry, roomy coop, the same as 
for chicks. The little ones are allowed to 
run free, after a few days, the hen being 
confined to her coop. The brooding 
ground should be mowed short before the 
coops are placed thereon. It may be a 
grassy corner of the orchard, the back 
lawn or a piece of meadow land not too 
far removed from the dwelling. 
Each hen may successfully care for 
from twenty to thirty chicks, according to 
the time of year and the climate. 
The first thirty-six hours after hatch¬ 
ing the chicks are absorbing the yolk and 
completing the development of their di¬ 
gestive system and should be allowed no 
feed during this period. Some fine sand 
and fresh, crisp grass are placed before 
them first of all. followed by some fine cut, 
lean meat, or meal worms. Hard-boiled 
eggs, chopped with fresh grass, makes a 
good food for the first few days. A raw 
egg mixed with dry meal or oatmeal to a 
dry, crumbly mass may be given once a day 
at first. The eggs may be gradually dis¬ 
continued during the second week and fine 
millet seed, cut oats, wheat and corn 
added to the ration. A limited amount of 
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