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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Pagina 16
... legs of the poor fowl in order to increase the bloody barbarity of the sport : but a passage in Aristophanes , which has since passed into a proverb , ( tolle calcar si pugnas , ) would seem to imply that this mode of shortening the ...
... legs of the poor fowl in order to increase the bloody barbarity of the sport : but a passage in Aristophanes , which has since passed into a proverb , ( tolle calcar si pugnas , ) would seem to imply that this mode of shortening the ...
Pagina 24
... legs of a goose , and then , letting it down and pulling it up again , it was compelled , by flap- ping its wings in its struggles , to supply the place of our modern chimney - sweeping machine . CHAPTER III . DOMESTICATION OF FOWLS IN ...
... legs of a goose , and then , letting it down and pulling it up again , it was compelled , by flap- ping its wings in its struggles , to supply the place of our modern chimney - sweeping machine . CHAPTER III . DOMESTICATION OF FOWLS IN ...
Pagina 39
... leg of a chicken to that of a prime wether ; or to assent to the substitution of the frivolities of fricasées and fritters for the substantial realities of rump - steaks . The art of poultry - keeping seems never to have been so well ...
... leg of a chicken to that of a prime wether ; or to assent to the substitution of the frivolities of fricasées and fritters for the substantial realities of rump - steaks . The art of poultry - keeping seems never to have been so well ...
Pagina 53
... legs ( which are covered with strong , tough , leathery scales ) terminating with three toes in front on each ; immediately above and at the back of these a fourth or hind toe springs , this latter being both by its length and its ...
... legs ( which are covered with strong , tough , leathery scales ) terminating with three toes in front on each ; immediately above and at the back of these a fourth or hind toe springs , this latter being both by its length and its ...
Pagina 55
... legs are short and strong , but so set or drawn backwards to the belly , as to give the bird an exceedingly awkward gait , familiar to all as a " waddle , ” and giving the fowl the appearance of being almost overbalanced by the fore or ...
... legs are short and strong , but so set or drawn backwards to the belly , as to give the bird an exceedingly awkward gait , familiar to all as a " waddle , ” and giving the fowl the appearance of being almost overbalanced by the fore or ...
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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