Arrange the squabs on a hot dish and strain over the sauce.
She tried to interest Ernestine in the business of raising squabs for the market.
With a man and his wife to run it," they could raise squabs by the thousands.
Them birds, sonny, had kept me off till their squabs could fly, and then they played that joke on me.
Grub being skerce, I had a fancy to bury them young squabs of eagles, by way of satisfying my own yearning for food, and giving the ole hook-beaked pirates a hint that they hadn't the sole right over the earth and air.
Them birds was waiting for me--throwing their beaks back and screaming like mad, while the squabs in the nest squealed till my head split.
Add the giblets from the squabs and some more of chicken, if at hand.
She forgot that even Squabs should be thoughtful of others, and that no Dove ever amounts to anything unless he begins in the right way as a Squab.
They are really hardly more than Squabs yet, and I can't bear to speak severely to them.
Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.
The mast had been chiefly consumed in Kentucky; and the pigeons, every morning a little before sunrise, set out for the Indiana territory, the nearest part of which was about sixty miles distant.
The Laughers have a peculiar voice, supposed to resemble a laugh.
A very important kind of variation is that constitutional change termed acclimatisation, which enables any organism to become gradually adapted to a different climate from the parent stock.
But this intermixture of distinct species will go a very little way in accounting for the peculiarities of the different breeds of dogs, many of which are totally unlike any wild animal.
A few other observers noted similar phenomena, but nothing more was done till Mr. Poulton's elaborate series of experiments with the larvae of several of our common butterflies were the means of clearing up several important points.
Among animals the cases are not numerous, because no systematic attempt has been made to select varieties for this special quality.
To us the very sight of blood and of torn or mangled limbs is painful, while the idea of the suffering implied by it is heartrending.
When they are well fed, the squabs grow very fast.
If only half of the squabs are reared in winter, the profits may be as great as when the actual results are much better, because in winter the prices are much higher than at the seasons when squabs are most easily produced.
A breeder of squabsfor market makes each compartment as large as is convenient and builds as many as he has room for.
In this country the growing of squabs has been widely exploited in recent years as a profitable commercial industry.
Near large cities where the demand for squabsis good, squab growing on a large scale is sometimes successful.
The true Homer is also the most popular type of pigeon for the production of squabs for market.
When a house is open in winter, some of the young, unfledged squabs may be chilled and die from exposure, but breeders agree that, on the whole, it is better to keep the windows or other openings for ventilation partly open at all times.
Same as above, but flavor with two ounces of melted cocoa or chocolate, instead of coffee.
Put the fish on a napkin, and garnish with small round boiled potatoes, parsley in branches, and quartered lemons.
Then put the squabs on a platter, and place the pan on the fire and cook until the butter is clarified.
Cut the squabs open at the back, and remove all the bones, being careful not to cut the skin.
Soon all the larger markets furnished squabs and then the smaller ones began to supply them and now many a comparatively small market is not complete without squabs as a part of the supplies of food kept on hand or provided on order.
We have tried to answer all the questions which a beginner would ask and give all the details so plainly that any one can begin breeding pigeons and raising squabs with success.
No man can tell whether they will producesquabs with white flesh or dark, squabs that will weigh ten pounds to the dozen or six pounds.
They are slower workers and the squabs require about two weeks longer to mature for market.
At the end of a year he had saved another fifty pairs for breeding and found he had sold squabs enough to pay for a new house and all of the feed he had bought during this time.
Be sure to select squabs which have light-colored flesh, as these will produce squabs like themselves and light flesh brings the highest price in the market, unless they are sent in too soon.
Such a record gives the owner an opportunity to keep account of the number of squabs a given pair produces and to pick squabs for breeding in the future, knowing what the parents have done.
He refused this offer, as he was getting more than this for a good many of his squabs and did not think he could afford to make a binding contract on a market where the price was increasing all the time.
The Swiss Mondaine is an extra large variety that has met with considerable favor in this country, and the squabs from this variety often weigh as heavy as twenty-four or thirty ounces each.
If they regularly produce and raise two squabsof good size and light color, they are valuable as the parents of breeding stock and should be kept.
Men, women and children raise squabs in this district, nearly every one of them being sold in New York City.
This is the highest priced feed the pigeon-keeper will need to buy but it is not fed largely, being used sparingly on account of the great nutritive qualities, which cause squabs to grow rapidly and make heavy breast meat.
He began supplying orders from these places and others began to call on him for squabs for special occasions, such as local banquets, receptions and other social functions.
A squab which is killed too young never brings a good price, as the buyers in the cities know one immediately they have felt of it, and a few squabs which have been killed too soon decrease the price of the whole package.
Hurlbut Wash squabs and stuff with boiled rice in which the cooked, minced giblets of the squabs have been mixed; place in casserole and pour a little melted butter over each squab; sprinkle with salt and pepper and onion salt.
There's a new bunch of Squabs at the Gaynight Revue that'll do you up!
Moisten your squabs with half a pint of Spanish sauce (Art.
Prepare and cook eight pigeons in the same manner as described for squabsen compote (Art.
Cook thirty minutes, drain and strain the liquid in which your squabs were cooked, add to it a quart of boiled peas, and serve with your squabs.
The place had the odor of a fowl-house, and squabs just fledged sufficiently to trust themselves in short flights, were fluttering around us in all directions in tens of thousands.
For one year our squabs averaged us a fraction over 60 cent per pair; say $3.
Good stock will rear six or eight pairs of squabs in a year, while some exceptionally good ones will raise ten pairs.
The squabs gain rapidly after a few days of this "milk" diet; pin-feathers replace the scanty yellow down in about a week.
Squabs of homers should be ready for selling at four weeks old; they should be fully feathered but still in the nest.
Dispose of pairs which habitually produce light-weight squabs as indicated by your records.
Minute directions for killing and dressingsquabs for market are given in Farmers' Bulletin No.
Young robins are not beautiful to behold, but squabs are such ghastly looking little beasts, with nothing to recommend them except their entire helplessness.
They are hardy, bright, active on their feet, and the squabs have a larger breast than some of the other sorts.
It is very desirable, whether raising squabs for market or for pets, to keep a record of the performance of each pair.
The man who did the ploughing had given him a couple to start with and told him there was money in squabs if one only went about it right.
George was talking about building a little pigeon-house and raising squabsfor sale.
Some of the squabs are as bad as ever you were, Bobby, when you were a freshie.
One of those fresh squabsput up her hand and when Gee Gee nodded to her, she squeals: 'Oh, I know, Miss Carrington!
Squabs which are reared in this way become fat more quickly than others and have whiter flesh.
Squabs are hatched in pairs, and as soon as they have grown up and have strength breed with their own mothers.
In equipping a [Greek: peristereon] pigeons of good age should be secured, neither squabs nor veterans, and as many males as females.
Furthermore, the keeper in these rounds may tend any pigeon which is ailing, remove any which are dead, and take out such squabs as are fit for market.
Scratch feed also lacks peas, and these are the finest fattening and strengthening food that squabs can get.
They breed plump, broad-breasted squabs and do not eat more than the average homer.
As soon as the squabs are fully feathered, they should be removed from the nest, as they will soon jump from nest and run on the floor, thereby losing weight until killed.
Of course, these fine, large birds will eat more than homers and the squabs will take a little longer to mature, but if you are in a locality to command a high price or sell them retail, you cannot go wrong in having a few pairs.
Small, medium, and large, is usually sufficient grading, but if you desire to grade by pounds to the dozen accurately, the following table shows just what grade various weight squabs come under.
If squabs are to be sold for breeding purposes, they should not be shipped till they are at least eight weeks' old, and preferably ten weeks.
Squabs are ready for market at from four to four-and-one-half weeks from the time hatched.
These birds breed squabs the marketable size: eight, nine and ten pounds to the dozen.
The squabs should never leave the nest till fully feathered, this takes about four weeks, and at that time the squabs are ready for market.
Considering the useful breeding life of a pigeon, which continues for five years, the question of profit in raising squabs should answer itself.
With squabs it is still harder, and although after becoming experienced, it is possible to make accurate guesses, one is apt to make a mistake even with old birds.
That question we cannot answer, but we know how many squabs we have produced from our breeders.
Remember, good breeders will breed plump, white squabs at a fast rate, while poor breeders will grow small, dark squabs that have not the vitality to ever be first-class breeders.
I do not recommend saving squabsduring the other months, as I have found from experience that they will breed well for two or three years, and then, there is a falling off in squabs and a heavy death rate among the hens.
The Mundurucu would have shown but slight squeamishness at swallowing one of the squabs as it was, while to Mozey it would have signified less.
We'll get squabs enough to keep us all for a week!
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