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 9
... sometimes withheld , on the night previous to an augury , the customary food of the chickens , in order to produce an evil omen ! The only other individual of our domestic fowls that we find noticed by the ancients , is the GUINEA Fowl ...
... sometimes withheld , on the night previous to an augury , the customary food of the chickens , in order to produce an evil omen ! The only other individual of our domestic fowls that we find noticed by the ancients , is the GUINEA Fowl ...
Pagina 22
... sometimes hit him and his hen , other times , if he can get behind one of them , they thresh one another well favour'dly . Afterwards the hen is boiled with bacon , and store of pancakes and fritters are made . " ..... In the Harleian ...
... sometimes hit him and his hen , other times , if he can get behind one of them , they thresh one another well favour'dly . Afterwards the hen is boiled with bacon , and store of pancakes and fritters are made . " ..... In the Harleian ...
Pagina 27
... sometimes used to fledge those warlike weapons . Among the moderns the flesh of the pea - fowl is regarded ( some writers assert undeservedly ) as almost unfit for food ; though Sir W. Jardine as- sures us that in India the native ...
... sometimes used to fledge those warlike weapons . Among the moderns the flesh of the pea - fowl is regarded ( some writers assert undeservedly ) as almost unfit for food ; though Sir W. Jardine as- sures us that in India the native ...
Pagina 28
... sometimes used as a pledge between the sovereign and his subject . Thus we are told , that in 1306 , Edward I. swore a solemn oath to his nobles on two swans . An- ciently these birds , when at large , could not be possessed legally by ...
... sometimes used as a pledge between the sovereign and his subject . Thus we are told , that in 1306 , Edward I. swore a solemn oath to his nobles on two swans . An- ciently these birds , when at large , could not be possessed legally by ...
Pagina 30
... sometimes with plain nicks upon the bill , but more generally with cross - bars formed diamond - wise . If too many birds are found to have flocked to one particular spot , they also are happed and conveyed to other parts of the river ...
... sometimes with plain nicks upon the bill , but more generally with cross - bars formed diamond - wise . If too many birds are found to have flocked to one particular spot , they also are happed and conveyed to other parts of the river ...
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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