American Poultry Advocate Volume 23 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...one year, add 25 cents extra to price of either style of binding. Where the weather is cold and sharp as it, is this spring, turkeys rarely lay before the first of April in this climate, Western New York. While it pays to have all poultry tame, one realizes more profit from gentleness in turkeys than any other breed of domestic fowl. The turkey will not quite take you into her confidence regarding the selection of a nest, but if you find her on her nest you may often take the egg from under her without much danger of frightening the turkey, or courting injury from her sharp beak. A shy, nervous turkey hen endangers her young brood when they are first taken from the nest, from her lack of confidence in her human friends. A person who has a natural fear of poultry must conquer this or his success will be much hampered. Turkey poults soon become very confiding and they may easily be kept so by judicious handling For many years I taught my turkey hens to make their first nests in the hay in an old barn. Cosey corners were arranged for them and as soon as they began peering into sheltered places, looking for a nest, they were confined in this barn a part of the day until they laid their first egg They rarely change this first nest unless unduly disturbed. I accustomed mine to allow me to approach the nest when occupied and they would soon permit me to "rob the nest" without resentment. Just a sift of insect powder on her back was all she would allow at first, but after a while even this indignity was permitted without fear, and when a thorough sifting was given she was not frightened, thought she did not like it. When removed with her poults to a big roomy coop with a clean board floor, she regarded it as "all in the day's work" and settled d...