The Poultry Yard; Comprising the Management of All Kinds of Fowls. With IllustrationsGeorge Routledge & Company, 1852 - 144 pàgines |
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Pàgina 36 - Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep ; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine : yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
Pàgina 111 - The pouter is of large size, often measuring eighteen inches in length from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail.
Pàgina 71 - ... when the young birds have attained this size, will fight with, and often destroy them by repeated blows on the head. Old and young, however, all move in the same course, and on foot, unless their progress be interrupted by a river, or the hunter's dog force them to take wing.
Pàgina 85 - I speak within bounds when I assert, that there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowls, of various sizes, within sight of the spot where I stood for near an hour.
Pàgina 72 - ... the shore ; on approaching which, should they find it too steep for landing, they cease their exertions for a few moments, float down the stream until they come to an accessible part, and by a violent effort, generally extricate themselves from the water. It is remarkable that, immediately after thus crossing a large stream, they ramble about for some time as if bewildered. In this state they fall an easy prey to the hunter.
Pàgina 71 - The males, or as they are more commonly called the gobblers, associate in parties from ten to a hundred, and search for food apart from the females, while the latter are seen either advancing singly, each with its brood of young, then about two-thirds grown, or in...
Pàgina 87 - of a beautiful deep purple in the centre, which is about the size of a shilling ; this is surrounded by a band of green, becoming narrow behind, but widening in front, and filling up a kind of notch that occurs in the blue ; then comes a broad brownish band ; and lastly a narrow black ring, edged with chestnut, all beautifully metallic, or rather presenting the hues of various precious stones, when viewed in certain lights. The bill, which is of a grayish horn-colour...
Pàgina 84 - whole woods were covered with their beautiful plumage, to which a rising sun imparted additional brilliancy. The small patches of plain, among the long grass, most of them cultivated, and with mustard then in bloom, which induced the birds to feed, increased the beauty of the scene...
Pàgina 70 - ... roosting apart from the tame ones ; and in other respects showing the force of hereditary disposition. The domesticated young reared from the eggs of the wild turkey are often employed as decoy birds to those in a state of nature. Mr. William Bloom, of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, caught five or six wild turkeys when quite chickens, and succeeded in rearing them. Although sufficiently tame to feed with his tame turkeys, and generally associate with them, yet they always retained some...
Pàgina 94 - In many parts of South America these birds have long been reclaimed ; and it is really surprising, considering the extreme familiarity of their manners and the facility with which they appear to pass from a state of nature to the tameness of domestic fowls, that they have not yet been introduced into the poultry-yards of Europe.