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Identifier: nationalstandard05rice (find matches)
Title: The national standard squab book
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rice, Elmer Cook. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Boston, Mass. (Press of Murray and Emery company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e holes in it. Now you need one door,to get yourself in and out of the squab house, and you needat least one window through which the pigeons can fly fromthe squab house into the flying pen and back from the flyingpen into the house. You will shut this window on cold nights,or on cold winter days. You must cover the whole windowwith wire netting so that the birds cannot break the panesof glass by flying against them. If you have no wire nettingover the window, some of the birds, when it is closed, willnot figure out for themselves that the glass stops their progress,but will bang against the panes at full speed, sometimes hurtingtheir heads and dazing them and at other times breaking theglass. The flying pen which you will build on the window side ofthe squab house may be as small or as large as you have room.The idea of it is not to give the birds an opportunity for longflight, but simply to get them out into the open air and sun-light. They enjoy the sun very much, it does them good
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PQ<PO*m P< p<j HP O 24 AN EASY START 25 and they court its direct rays all the time. Build the flyingpen, if you choose, up over the roof, so the birds may sunthemselves there. If that side of the roof which faces theflying pen is too steep for the pigeons to get a foothold, nailfootholds along the roof, same as carpenters use when theyare shingling a roof, and the pigeons will rest on these to sunthemselves. For the flying pen you want the ordinarypoultry netting, either of one-inch or two-inch mesh. Thetwo-inch mesh is almost invariably used by squab raisers,because it is very much cheaper than the one-inch mesh.The one-inch mesh is used only by squab raisers who are afraidthat small birds (the English sparrows here in New England)will steal through the large meshes of the two-inch nettingand eat the grain which you have bought for the pigeons.You can buy this wire netting in rolls of any width from onefoot up to six feet. If your flying pen is twelve feet high,you should u

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