Pheasant Farming; Containing General Information About Pheasants, With Instructions How to Raise Them
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Another successful method of feeding young pheasants is with the larvae of the common blue flay (maggots). When this food is used r.othing else need be fed, except greens occasionally, until the birds are a month old, however, the chick food or cracked wheat should be kept before them that they may learn to eat it and be prepared to adapt themselves to the whole wheat diet when the larvse food has been discontinued, which should be done gradually. The objection to the larvae food is the offensi...ve odor ordinarily associated with it. This may be overcome by raising the larvae scientifically. Contrary to this commonly accepted idea, the larvae of the fly prefers fresh to decaying meat. Professor McGillivary, of Queen's University, Toronto, who has successfully raised English Ring- neck pheasants, says: "Our investigation and study of entomology prove to us that maggots separated from their usual surroundings, are just as clean and odorless as young chickens. Flies do not lay their eggs on tainted meat when fresh meat can be found, and maggots are clean feeders from choice and thrive best on fresh meat.'' If the following method is employed, there will be little or no ordor.
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