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Title: Outdoor opportunities; the raising care of small animals, birds and plants; a practical treatise on the raising and care of small animals, birds and plants for profit and pleasure
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Outdoor enterprise publishing co., Kansas City, Mo. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Domestic animals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Kansa City, Mo., Outdoor enterprise publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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can successfully handle thesituation. Pheasants can be reared by incubation and brooder, asshown by accompanying illustration of the picture of severalhundred baby pheasants in the brooder, also where ther-e werecommon chickens and pheasants hatched at the same time,mixed. Feeding Feed exactly the same as with baby chicks, using hardboiled eggs freely with first foods, and in addition baby chickfood dry mixtures, also may bake what the game keeperscall Johnny cakes, composed of either whole wheat and cornground together, or if buying, use a mixtures of bran, flourand corn meal, about one-third each, mixed with about foureggs to each quart, shells and all, and a tablespoonful of char-coal to the quart, which bake well, and after cooling put itthrough a grinder or crumble it by hand. Where you arefeeding baby food to chicks hovered by a hen feed her cornso she will not consume too much Qt tJi? baby food. 202 OUTDOOR OPPORTUNITIES 0 :i Z 0 ZH X Q 0 o 0 H o < \4 W b w W w n u J2 Ec 3 W
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THE PHEASANT INDUSTRY 203 To the above, of course, are added fine sand, gravel,oyster shell or other grits, also an abundance of pure water,kept in clean modern water vessels, by which the birds candrink freely without getting wet and the water protectedfrom the hot sun. These same foods will answer for partridges, quail, prairiechickens, peafowl, turkeys and water fowl. In addition to this you can use the modified form of theEnglish and European method as used by imported gamekeepers, so that you may be posted and decide what systemyou wish to adopt, or are prepared to adopt, owing largely tothe magnitude on which you handle the business. Hatching and Rearing of Pheasants by ModifiedEnglish MethodThe accompanying illustration (see page 202) of one endof some setting boxes, and picketing of the hens for feeding,will give a good idea of this method which was established bya gamekeeper who came from England for that purpose. Thenext head gamekeeper, a Scotchman, also came over for thepu

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