On faith of King, on faith of Owl, they swore That they would eat each other's chicks no more.
The latter method will take a year more than the former, as the chicks we hatch this year will be our layers a year later.
Some people say that chicks have lice on them when they are hatched, but this is not so.
All the small grains are good if they are cracked so that the chicks can eat them.
A very low fence will hold small chicks from straying away, but it must be absolutely tight at the bottom, as a very small opening will allow them to get through.
In a very few days after we place the chicks in a brooder they should be allowed to go in and out at will.
The small white lice can be controlled by dusting the chicks with insect powder and by keeping the brooder absolutely clean.
It is also possible to buy one-day-old chicks for about ten or fifteen cents apiece from a poultry dealer, but the safest way is to hatch your own stock.
We can safely count on hatching eight chicks from a setting, of which four may be pullets.
Old fowls can dust themselves and in a measure keep the pest in check, but little chicks are comparatively helpless.
Do not feed meat to chicks until their pin feathers begin to show, when they may have some well-cooked lean meat, three times a week.
We all learn in everyday life how a hen will take care of a brood of chicks or how a bee will go from blossom to blossom to sip honey.
Always feed chicks on dry food and you will avoid a great deal of sickness.
This is as they sit in nature and it usually seems to be the case that a hen that steals her nest will bring out more chicks than one that we have coddled.
There is always a temptation to feed chicks too soon after they are hatched.
Hen-hatched chicks are usually more subject to lice than those hatched In incubators and raised in brooders, as they become infected from the mother.
He claimed that these fur-coated chicks were a proof of nature's adaptation of all animals to their environment, the seventeen eggs having been of the cold-storage variety.
The chicks are sometimes domesticated, but even when born in captivity, it is said they are difficult to tame and soon wander away.
The hen announces the laying of an egg by means of a proud cackle, and the chicks themselves have the characteristic "peep, peep, peep" of the domestic birds.
One day it would be the one soft cluck of Mother Grouse Hen, calling to her chicks to hide before Frisky Fox should pass that way.
Such birds bred together gave an F2 generation containing chicks with the full deep pigment, chicks without pigment, and chicks with various grades of pigmentation, all the different kinds in both sexes.
The old mother hen sometimes has many little chicks running around her.
Illustration] Chicks are sometimes caught by hawks, which fly around watching for them.
A post-mortem examination of chicks which have died of this disease shows the liver to be of the bright colour of orange-peel.
The chicks are often attacked by old birds--always spiteful to little ones which are not their own--and we have had several kicked to death by their vindictive elders.
An incubator, considerably increasing as it does the number of chicks that can be hatched, is of course of the greatest value on a farm.
For the first two or three months the chicks are herded near the house by boys, whose duty it is to keep them well supplied with prickly pear leaves and other green food, cut up small.
The disappointment of losing the chicks is much intensified by the fact that they always begin so well.
My Chicks were accustomed to my presence in the room, and generally were restless, and continuously made this sound when I left them.
Professor Morgan says: "I find that the sounds emitted by young Chicks are decidedly instinctive--that is to say, they are inherited modes of giving expression to certain emotional states.
I can face contemptible, cleanly poverty with pa alone, but if I see my innocent chicks sharing our miseries every cabbage in our garden will grow up with a broken heart!
I've had to swallow the husks of London and my chicks shall have the barley.
They were like twelve chicks out of the same nest.
Three or four, or rarely five, chicks constitute the group.
I have often observed that the chicks take shelter under the wings of their mother from the cold nights and the heavy showers.
Thirty days seemed to be about the time necessary for the chicks to mature, as by July 20 fully fledged young were seen commonly about the tundra.
Then the chicks commence to chirp peep, peep, peeyp, and run to their mother.
The same observer says: Both birds share in the duties of incubation and are very zealous in defense of their treasures, especially when their pretty tawny brown chicks are first bursting forth.
They are able to leave the nest as soon as hatched, little gray downy chicks with faint blotches of brown, so like the dried tufts of dryas as to be quite undiscoverable when hidden among them.
Western sandpipers with their chicks were everywhere, and during a walk around the tundra you had a constant attendance of anxious mothers and fathers wheeling about.
One realized how wonderfully obedient the chicks were: they were left in the rushes at the approach of danger, their mother having evidently enjoined them to remain concealed and without movement until she returned for them.
Good little goslings at their play And well-conducted chicks Were taught to think poor goosey's flights Were naughty, ill-bred tricks.
But best of all the little fowls Still playing on the shore, Soft downy chicks and goslings gay, Chirped out, "Dear Goose, lay more.
Great chanticleer was pleased to give A patronizing crow, And the contemptuous biddies clucked, "I wish my chicks did so.
There are hares within, and many a brood of partridge chicks that cannot yet use their wings.
In early summer there were tiny partridge chicks about, which rushed under the coop.
The next summer, when my chicks of that year grew up a little, I cut their wings, and by that means preserved all but one, which I suppose was either not cut so close as the rest, or his wings had grown again.
The castaways having made a repast on chicks instead of eggs, as they had been expecting, were for the time satisfied, so far as concerned their appetites.
Fortified by these, and armed with the boat-hook, which he had suddenly seized, he struck down the precociouschicks one after another, and put an end to their aspiring flights by laying them lifeless upon the sand.
A featherless hen was scratching in the yellow sand at her feet, and a brood of featherless chicks were following each cluck with an intensity of interest that left them no time to watch the actions of the lovers.
Behind its bamboo chicks you retire on your return from the office.
A tall Sikh, with his great red turban awry and his brown kaki uniform torn and soiled, pushed through the bamboo chicks and into my presence.
Through the spaces of the protecting chicks I caught glimpses of my Malay kebun, or gardener, squatting on his bare feet, with his bare knees drawn up under his armpits, hacking with a heavy knife at the short grass.
The cooping of the young chicks must be considered as a problem somewhat distinct until they are old enough to contend with the other fowls for their rights.
Amid a great clucking and squawking, Johnnie Green and his father put Henrietta and her chicks into the pen and placed it in the back of the wagon.
And the first sprinkle of rain was enough to send her scurrying for cover, calling frantically for her chicks to hurry.
You'll agree with me, of course, that there were never any other chicks as handsome as these.
She told her chicks that they were going home that evening, and that she would be glad to be back on the farm again, among plain home-folks.
They've gone and given you and your chicks the first prize.
And some hens will traipse chicks through the grass and weeds as far as turkeys.
In these pens the seventy, or more, chicks thrived immensely.
Send the hens back to business, and let the chicks shift for themselves.
Those home-made brooders of ours keep the chicks quite as warm, and never peck the little fellows, or step upon them, as the old hen often does.
There is little true spangling in the first plumage; the darker chicks prove the best; that is, there is the same tendency to grow whiter with age that I have noted above.
The white in the young chicksof Minorcas is extremely variable in amount, but never wholly absent; in time, as the bird grows older, it is replaced by black, so that the adult male and female Minorcas have a wholly black plumage.
Actually I found, as Darwin (1876) did, that the chicks of this first hybrid generation were all wholly black.
In this respect they differed markedly from the chicks of the Silkie, which are pure white, and also from the chicks of the Minorca, which are prevailingly black, but have white belly and outer primaries.
The hybrid chicksmay be said to have the extended pigmentation dominant over interrupted pigmentation.
Also, many "blue" chicks produce white adults with black specks in the plumage.
The only point of variation in the uropygium of the chicks derived from the back cross or from F1's bred inter se was that in some the uropygium seemed distinctly smaller than in the others.
The rose-combed hens used in this last cross were heterozygous, having single comb recessive; consequently they produced also chickswith typical Y combs.
The reason for the precocious development of black pigment over the belly and primaries of the hybrid chicks is probably the presence of an extension factor (cf.
Water and boiled milk, with a little lime water in each occasionally, is the best drink until the chicks are two or three months old, when loppered and buttermilk may take the place of the boiled milk.
Do not use water with the rice, as it forms a paste and the chicks cannot swallow it.
As hen after hen came off, her brood was carried to the house and endeavors made to raise the chicks by hand.
When either Pearl or Aunt Tillie passed out of the kitchen door, the chicks would fly to meet them.
It is not to be expected that the chicks of these species will at once accept relations with our kind.
Each brood appeared to have its own space of water, and between each of the chicks there was likewise a less but equally well measured interval.
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