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Identifier: horseotherlivest00jenn (find matches)
Title: The horse and other live stock
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Jennings, Robert, 1824- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter & co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t, meal porridge, and that in small quantities, alternated with bread steeped in milk; he may be given as much pure water as he will drink, it being best to use it in a 467 148 POULTRY AND THEIR DISEASES. tepid state, or at least with the chill taken off. At the end ofa week, or ten days, at most, the fowl, if previously of a sound,vigorous constitution, will be all right, and may be turned outwith the others. The usual method, in France, of making poulardes, or hen-capons, as they are sometimes improperly designated, is toextirpate the egg-cluster, or ovarium, in the same manner asthe testicles are extracted from the cockerel; but it is quitesufficient merely to cut across the oviduct, or egg-tube, witha sharp knife. Otherwise, they may be treated in the samemanner as the capons. Capons are fattened in precisely thesame manner as other fowls. FATTENING AND SLATJGHTEKING.Fat is not a necessary part of any animal body, being theform which superabundant nourishment assumes, which would,
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A BAD STYLE OF SLAUGHTERING. if needed, be converted into muscles and other solids. It iscontained in certain membranous receptacles provided for it, distributed over the body, and it is turned to use whenever 4()S FATTENING AND SLAUGHTERING. 149 the supply of nourishment iS defective, which should be prOvided by the stomach, and other great organs. In suchemergencies it is taken up, in the animal economy, by theabsorbents ; if the latter, from any cause, act feebly, the healthsuffers. When, however, nourishment is taken into thesystem in greater quantities than is necessary for ordinarypurposes, the absorbent vessels take it up; and the fat thusmade is generally healthy, provided there is a good digestion. A common method of fattening fowl is to give them the runof a farm-yard, where they thrive upon the offal of the stableand other refuse, with perhaps some small regular daily feeds;but at threshing-time, they become fat, and are styled barn-door fowls, probably the most delicate an

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