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Title: Pheasant farming; containing general information about pheasants, with instructions how to raise them
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Simpson, Eugene Milton, 1871- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Pheasants. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Corvallis, Or., Press of Benton County republican
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of this box is to keep the young pheasants near the foster mother until they learn her call, the small size of the box keeping them always near her. Have ready a runway made 1 x2x5 feet in size, the ends made of boards 1 x2 feet strengthened by cleats nailed across the grain, these ends connected by four strips 1x3 inches and the whole covered with a strip of 5-foot 2-inch mesh poultry netting stretched tight (see photograph). It may here be remarked that for fastening poultry netting, I have found No. 1 1 double pointed lacks well adapted. Make a box 2 feet square with top hinged in back as shown in photograph and opening in front to correspond with opening cut in one end of lunway for a coop. The front of this coop should be slightly higher than runway. Place the two together as seen in photograph. Place this coop and runvs ay in large pen so as to receive protection of shed but so that runway may have benefit of morning sun. After the hen has been kept in box four or five days re-
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move her and pheasants to this coop. Make this changeat twilight and see that all the pheasants go under thehen before leaving them. A wire screen may be slippedbetween the coop and runway as a precaution againstthe pheasants getting out the first night. It should beremoved early in the morning. The change if made inthe day greatly alarms the small birds. The wire run-way prevents the hen wandering about and if a bantamshe will be continually hovering. The small pheasantscan easily pass through the 2-inch meshes, besides thepheasants can be fed food different from the hen. Inabout two months you will notice that the pheasants areno longer roosting under the hen, but are huddling to-gether in corner of pen outside. It is now time to re-move the hen as they will never return to her. Place a drinking fountain outside of runway but sohen may reach it. Drinking fountains as shown in theillustration should f be used, Always 0m-\ f IBkeep drinking water jHL JUBLJbetore your pheas- ^^=^f^^^^^

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