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Identifier: nationalstandard05rice (find matches)
Title: The national standard squab book
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rice, Elmer Cook. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Boston, Mass. (Press of Murray and Emery company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ain and eat the sprout, grainand all, for if they do they will have diarrhoea. A pigeon ingood condition and busy with a nest ordinarily will not toucha nasty little green sprout, but in the moulting season, whenpigeons are in the dumps generally, and feeling like having astimulant, they will experiment with these sprouts. Keepthe floor of your squab house clean and the yard of the flyingpen raked up and you need not worry about this matter. Ground oyster shell should be placed in a box handy for thepigeons to get at. The purpose of this oyster shell is toprovide the constituents of the eggshell. The female pigeonneeds it in order to form the egg. Grit is needed by the pigeons to enable them to reduce topowder the feed which they take into their crops Themuscles of the crop work the grit on the grains and reducethe grains so that they mix with the digestive fluids. Carttwo or three bushels of gravel or sharp sand into your flyingpen and cover the ground with it. It is not necessary to
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WATER AND FEED 59 cover the whole space of the ground of the flying pen. Forfuller discussion of shells and grit, see supplement. It is poor policy to mix anything but wheat andcorn together. If you make a mixture of peas and hemp-seed with cracked corn and wheat, you will find that thepigeons will dig down after the peas and hemp-seed and tossthe other grain around and waste it. The only mixture,therefore, which we feed is a mixture of wheat and corn.Fill the self-feeder with whole corn and wheat, in the propor-tion of three parts of the corn to one of wheat. We call the wheat and corn staples, because withus in New England they form the major part of the diet, andare the cheapest. The hemp-seed, buckwheat, Canada peas,kaffir corn, millet and barley we call dainties. We do notfeed much millet, because we have the other grains, whichare cheapest, but some of our customers in the millet sectionsof the country feed a good deal of millet. In such cases theylook on millet as one of their

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