Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition.

CHAPTER VII.--REARING AND FATTENING FOWLS 63

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The Chicken's first Food--Cooping the Brood--Basket and Wooden Coops--Feeding Chickens--Age for Fattening--Barn-door Fattening--Fattening-Houses--Fattening-Coops--Food--"Cramming"-- Capons and Poulardes--Killing Poultry--Plucking and packing Fowls--Preserving Feathers.