In the partition for Liquor, let them have water or strong
Ale to drink. They will be very drunk and sleep; then eat again. Let a
Candle stand all night over the Coop, and then they will eat much of the
night. With this course they will be prodigiously fat in a fortnight. Be
sure to keep them very sweet. This maketh the taste pure.
ANOTHER WAY OF FEEDING CHICKEN
Take Barley meal, and with droppings of small Ale, (or Ale it self) make it
into a consistence of batter for Pan-cakes. Let this be all their food.
Which put into the troughs before them, renewing it thrice a day, morning,
noon and evening; making their troughs very clean every time, and keeping
their Coops always very clean and sweet. This is to serve them for drink as
well as meat, and no other drink be given them. Feed them thus six days;
the seventh give them nothing in their troughs but powder of brick searced,
which scowreth and cleanseth them much, and makes their flesh exceeding
white. The next day fall to their former food for six days more, and the
seventh again to powder of Brick.
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