Moubray's Treatise on Domestic and Ornamental Poultry: A Practical Guide to the History, Breeding, Rearing, Feeding, Fattening, and General Management of Fowls and PigeonsArthur Hall, Virtue, and Company, 1854 - 504 pagina's |
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... given to Abraham nearly 4000 years ago , and imposed by the Levitical law upon the Israelites , to sacrifice pigeons or turtle doves , it would seem that these birds were as much , if not more , accessible to the people gener- ally ...
... given to Abraham nearly 4000 years ago , and imposed by the Levitical law upon the Israelites , to sacrifice pigeons or turtle doves , it would seem that these birds were as much , if not more , accessible to the people gener- ally ...
Pagina 7
... given by Columella ( A. D. 40 ) for rearing geese and ducks , some have sup- posed that the latter were not then domesticated among the Roman people : an opinion that would appear to have some foundation , as Pliny , about the same time ...
... given by Columella ( A. D. 40 ) for rearing geese and ducks , some have sup- posed that the latter were not then domesticated among the Roman people : an opinion that would appear to have some foundation , as Pliny , about the same time ...
Pagina 14
... leisure of the boys is given to the sport , to see the fight of their cocks . in the school . " It is not surprising , therefore , that the pastime thus encouraged ( we might almost say , taught ) 14 DOMESTIC POULTRY .
... leisure of the boys is given to the sport , to see the fight of their cocks . in the school . " It is not surprising , therefore , that the pastime thus encouraged ( we might almost say , taught ) 14 DOMESTIC POULTRY .
Pagina 22
... given by Strutt in his Sports and Pastimes , but we are disposed to think ( as he anticipates his readers may ) that it was a mere trick of the illuminator's fancy , as we have nothing to justify the belief that dancing cocks ever ...
... given by Strutt in his Sports and Pastimes , but we are disposed to think ( as he anticipates his readers may ) that it was a mere trick of the illuminator's fancy , as we have nothing to justify the belief that dancing cocks ever ...
Pagina 27
... given in honour of the marriage of the Duke of Burgundy and Queen Margaret of England , in 1468 , it is said that no less than one hundred of those birds were daily served up for a week ! Much later , too , we find peacocks , or Peions ...
... given in honour of the marriage of the Duke of Burgundy and Queen Margaret of England , in 1468 , it is said that no less than one hundred of those birds were daily served up for a week ! Much later , too , we find peacocks , or Peions ...
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appearance Bantam beautiful bill birds body breast breed bright brood brown chickens chicks cloth Cochin China cock colour comb common Common Pheasant covered crest dark described disease distinct domestic Dorking duck Edition eggs English Pouter Engravings especially exhibit fanciers fancy fattened Fcap Feap feathers feeding flavour flesh fowls Game geese gilt edges Goose grains grey ground hackle hatched head Illustrations imported inches incubate jalap JOHN CUMMING kind known latter legs light Malay male marked morocco mottled neck hackle nest origin peculiar perhaps Pheasant pigeons plumage Poland possess Post 8vo poultry produce reared Rock Pigeon rump hackle scarcely shade Silver Pheasant sometimes spangled Spanish specimens speckled streaked sub-variety Swan tail Temminck tion tuft Tumbler Turbit Turkey usually variety wattles whence whilst wild wings writers yard yellow young