But the Chicken must have liberty to go from her to
other parts of the Coop, where they may eat their own meat, and come in
again to the Hen, to be warmed by her, at their pleasure. You must be
careful to keep their Coop very clean.
TO FEED CHICKEN
Fatten your Chicken the first week with Oatmeal scalded in Milk; the second
with Rice and Sugar in Milk. In a fortnight they will be prodigiously fat.
It is good to give them sometimes a little Gravel, or powder of Glass, to
cleanse their maws, and give them appetite.
If you put a little bran with their meat, it will keep their maws clean,
and give them appetite.
ANOTHER EXCELLENT WAY TO FATTEN CHICKEN
Boil white bread in Milk, as though you were to eat it; but make it thick
of the bread, which is sliced into it in thin slices, not so thick as if it
were to make a pudding; but so, that when the bread is eaten out, there may
some liquid milk remain for the Chicken to drink; or that at first you may
take up some liquid Milk in a spoon, if you industriously avoid the bread:
sweeten very well this potage with good Kitchin Sugar of six pence a pound;
so put it into the trough before them.
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