The cockerelshould be starved for twenty-four hours in order to empty the intestines.
The cockerel will, if growing nicely, be fairly plump and the hens, if on hopper rations of corn and beef scrap, will be about as fat as they can be profitably made, and to waste further effort upon them would not pay.
This system of picking the best cockerel from each brood and discarding the poorest pullets is the most practical method known of building up a vigorous, quick growing and early laying strain.
He saw what might have been a small cockerel (if it had been large he might have thought twice) crouching, and--he just sailed right in.
I will break thy cockerel head for that speech," said Blunt, furiously.
An I had had a mace in my hand, I would have knocked thy cockerel brains out that time.
A fine sight he was then, with a flower at his ear and a cock's plume stuck in his cap; but now, methinks, our cockerel is shorn of his gay feathers.
The top-knot of the cockerel inclines to hang more backward than that of the pullets.
The cockerel intended for capons should be of the largest breeds, as the Dorking, Cochin China, or the Great Malay.
That is Mr. Cockerel hates Mr. Leverett—he calls him a sickly little ass; he pronounces his opinions half affectation and the other half dyspepsia.
Mr. Cockerel returns to America, after a general tour, with a renewed conviction that this is the only country.
Mr. Cockerel says it is not we that are cut off, but Europe, and he seems to think Europe has somehow deserved it.
Mr. Leverett and Mr. Cockerel disappeared one fine day without the smallest pretension to having broken my heart, I’m sure—though it only depended on me to think they must have tried to.
Mr. Leverett speaks of Mr. Cockerel as a “strident savage,” but he allows he finds him most diverting.
I’ve asked Mr. Cockerel meanwhile what he thinks of M.
It’s true we have begun to be, a little; you would see that from the way Mr. Cockerel and Mr. Louis Leverett are always inviting me to walk.
Lejaune’s plan of writing a book, and he answers that he doesn’t see what it matters to him that a Frenchman the more should make the motions of a monkey—on that side poor Mr. Cockerel is de cette force.
Mr. Cockerel says that mamma’s evidently not familiar with the rush of improvement in this country; he speaks of 1855 as if it were a hundred years ago.
Illustration: Cockerel] He then asked the cockerel if he had seen Boy Blue.
At last the cockerel took the final step, craned his neck to its utmost and peered down into the empty pot.
My friend was greatly amused to see all the trouble that the fowl was taking to get up to the empty pot, and, for the fun of giving the conceited young cockerel a fright, threw a pebble at him.
Immediately he did this, out stepped a long-legged athletic-looking young cockerel and began to advance against the enemy.
The younger flung up thecockerel with all his might; the bird flew upwards higher than the house and turned over in the air like a pigeon.
Near the barn Zhmuhin's sons were standing; the elder held a gun, while the younger had in his hands a grey cockerelwith a bright red comb.
The elder boy fired and the cockerelfell like a stone.
Mr. Cockerel says it is not we that are cut off, but Europe, and he seems to think that Europe has deserved it somehow.
He is very artistic, and talks like an article in some review, he has lived a great deal in Paris, and Mr. Cockerel says that is what has made him such an idiot.
Mr. Cockerel says that mamma is evidently not familiar with the march of improvement in this country; he speaks of 1855 as if it were a hundred years ago.
Mr. Leverett speaks of Mr. Cockerel as a "strident savage," but he declares he finds him most diverting.
It's true that we have begun to be, a little; you would see that by the way that Mr. Cockerel and Mr. Louis Leverett are always inviting me to walk.
Mr. Leverett and Mr. Cockerel disappeared one fine day, without the smallest pretension to having broken my heart, I am sure, though it only depended on me to think they had!
But it is a devil's pity that this young cockerel is not fonder of his dinner.
I knew the windlestraw, Guy de Villehardouin, a raw young provincial, come up the first time to Court, but a fiery little cockerel for all of that.
I thought," he says, "that it might be worth while keeping a cockerel for his music merely, as a singing bird.
This cockerel was apparently the musical member, and promised in a short time to rival his neighbour.
The cockerel at the prick of the instrument screamed like a banshee, and Val's unnerved hand fell to her side.
On the urgent advice of the others she attempted to finish the operation (with her eyes closed), but the cockerel objected strenuously, blood flew in every direction and heart-rending shrieks tore the air.
To go and strut about like a full-plumaged young cockerel in the spring, and look at yourself in a bit of glass!
None of your ruffling up like a young cockerel and sticking your hackles out because you think your spurs have grown, when you are not much more than fledged, because that won't do with me.
If a perfect capon, it remains always soft-meated and may grow very large, though it does not, as is commonly supposed, grow larger than a cockerel within the time it is usually kept before being killed.
The word "pullet" is also used by others, but the popular names for a cockerel are crower and young rooster.
When the spurs of a cockerel begin to harden and to grow a long, sharp point, and the bird becomes boisterous and quarrelsome, the flesh becomes dry and tough and is not fit for roasting.
Now, it happened that there was also in that farm-yard a good old rooster, who, observing how cruelly the little cockerel was treated, resolved to adopt him.
Under his care the puny young cockerelgrew strong and handsome, and my little readers will be glad to hear that he always treated his good old rooster-mother with kindness and respect.
Bah, if I had my way the young cockerel would face a file at our first camp.
I waited for that no doubt you would pick out some cockerel without so much as a spur to his heel.
Dreaming of getting ten dollars or more for a cockerel that was worth a dollar and thirty-five cents as a broiler had been just another ride on a pink cloud, and his dreams of wealth in the fall evaporated.
He caught up the cockerel and, as he stroked it, looked around at the pullets and thought of the flock they would become.
They were the best chickens that could be bought and, in terms of what they would bring in the market, the cockerel was worth any two dozen run-of-the-mill chickens and each of the pullets was worth any dozen.
