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Show HOW TO CARRY LIVE POULTRY PROPERLY i Nv;M "ipf -: i -. 4 Right and Wrong Way of Carrying a Duck. "A bird in the hand" is an ancient phrase but it makes a lot of difference differ-ence how the bird is handled. Especially Espe-cially is this true with the poultryman who breeds any of the heavier strains of hens, ducks and geese. It is just as easy to carry a fowl properly, and much safer and wiser besides. Here are a few suggestions by J. G. Halpin, secretary of the Wisconsin Poultry association: as-sociation: Carry a duck by the neck as indicated indi-cated in the picture. Don't grab it ly the wing or the feet. Ducks, like puppies, pup-pies, can stand being handled by the scruff of the neck better than to have their weight suspended from one wing or their feet, which are rather frail. Pekin, Rouen and Aylesbury ducks and all such heavy market types should al-w-ays be handled in this manner by careful poultrymen. Heavy hens with full crops should never be seized by the legs and swung head down. Neither should they be tilted up in the clumsy way shown in the picture. They should be so grasped that their wings are confined closely and securely under the arm of the person per-son carrying them, but above all things an easy and natural position means more comfort and less struggling strug-gling and injury to the bird and possibly pos-sibly the man as well. Flopping wings and scratching claws often do harm to human skin and eyes. A little careful handling will do away with this danger. r ' it. :: k"- ' 'Jit Right and Wrong Way of Carrying a Hen. |