Then again to barley Meal and Ale. Thus
they will be exceeding fat in fifteen days, and purely white and sweet.
TO FATTEN YOUNG CHICKENS IN A WONDERFULL DEGREE
Boil Rice in Milk till it be very tender and Pulpy, as when you make Milk
Potage. It must be thick, almost so thick, that a spoon may stand an-end in
it. Sweeten this very well with ordinary Sugar. Put this into their troughs
where they feed, that they may be always eating of it. It must be made
fresh every day. Their drink must be onely Milk, in another little trough
by their meat-trough. Let a candle (fitly disposed) stand by them all
night; for seeing their meat, they will eat all night long. You put the
Chicken up, as soon as they can feed of themselves; which will be within a
day or two after they are hatched, and in twelve days, or a fortnight, they
will be prodigiously fat; but after they have come to their height, they
will presently fall back. Therefore they must be eaten as soon as they are
come to their height. Their Pen or Coop must be contrived so, that the Hen
(who must be with them, to sit over them) may not go at liberty to eat away
their meat, but be kept to her own diet, in a part of the Coop that she
cannot get out of.
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