Lay this before them for their
food for four days. Then give them still the same, but mingled with a
little powder of Glass for 4 or five days more. In which time they will be
extremely fat and good. For their drink, give them the droppings of good
Ale or good Beer. When you eat them, you will find some of the powder of
glass in their stomacks, i.e. gizzards.
TO FEED POULTRY
My Lady Fanshaws way of feeding Capons, Pullets, Hens, Chickens or Turkies,
is thus. Have Coops, wherein every fowl is a part, and not room to turn in,
and means to cleanse daily the ordure behind them, and two troughs; for
before that, one may be scalding and drying the day the other is used, and
before every fowl one partition for meat, another for drink. All their
Meat is this: Boil Barley in water, till it be tender, keep some so, and
another parcel of it boil with Milk, and another with strong Ale. Let them
be boiled as wheat that is creed. Use them different days for variety, to
get the fowl appetite. Lay it in their trough, with some Brown-Sugar
mingled with it.
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