Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture

by John H. Robinson

• Cabbage for poultry, [89], [117], [140]
• Cackling of fowls, [33]
• Cages for canaries, [272]
• Call Ducks, [133], [134];
  • illustrated, [135]
• Cambridgeshire Bronze Turkey, [182]
• Canada Goose, [165];
  • illustrated, [166]
• Canary Islands, canaries in, [269]
• Candling eggs, [21], [283];
  • illustrated, [282]
• Capon, [116]
• Carneaux squabs, illustrated, [266]
• Carrier Pigeon, [243]
• Cart, used on poultry farm, illustrated, [102]
• Cats and canaries, [272]
• Cayuga Duck, [131]
• Cement floor in poultry house, [74]
• Central America, turkey in, [181]
• Ceylon, peafowl in, [209]
• Chalazæ, function of, [17]
• Charcoal fire, incubating eggs over, [307]
• Chicken, exclusion of, [22];
  • technical use of term, [35]
• Chickweed for canaries, [273]
• Children as poultry keepers, [39], [42]
• China, introduction of poultry into, [36];
  • Pekin Duck brought from, [131];
  • artificial incubation in, [305]
• China Geese, [162];
  • illustrated, [162], [163]
• Chinese races of fowls, [51]
• Cities, relation of growth of, to poultry culture, [278]
• Classes of domestic birds, [6]
• Clover, [140]
• Clucking of hen, [33], [93]
• Cochin, Buff, illustrated, [50];
  • Black, used in making Plymouth Rock, [57];
  • Partridge, judging, [296]
• Cochin Bantams, [69];
  • illustrated, [69]
• Cock, use of term, [34]
• Cockfighting, prohibition of, [5]
• Cockerel, [35]
• Cold storage, [112], [285]
• Colony houses, illustrated, [101], [103], [104], [106]
• Colony system of poultry keeping, [101]
• Color, in feathers, [10];
  • of wild ancestor of domestic fowl, [27];
  • of wild ancestor of domestic pigeon, [247];
  • consideration of, in judging, [294]
• Comb, of fowl, [33], [117];
  • of guinea, [200]
• Commerce, relations of, to aviculture, [308]
• Common Pheasant, [214]
• Comparison judging, [299]
• Confinement, effect of, on egg production, [72], [74]
• Cooling dressed poultry, [285];
  • illustrated, [287]
• Coop, made of dry-goods box, illustrated, [75];
  • for hens and chicks, [97];
  • illustrated, [97], [98], [106];
  • for turkey hen and brood, illustrated, [197];
  • for pheasants, illustrated, [218], [219]
• Corn, cracked, [78], [98], [103], [116], [140], [175];
  • feeding, on cob, [89];
  • soaking whole, [89];
  • for sitting hens, [95];
  • stale, [220]
• Corn meal for chicks, [78], [89], [97]
• Cornfield, poultry in, [106];
  • illustrated, [122]
• Cracker crumbs for chicks, [98]
• Creameries as egg-collecting depots, [280]
• Creamy tint in white feathers, cause of, [11]
• Crest, occurrence of, in fowls, [10];
  • consideration of, in judging, [295]
• Crested White Duck, [133]
• Crop, function of, [16];
  • size of, in duck, [140];
  • peculiarity of, in ostrich, [232]
• Croppers, [250]
• Crossbred, defined, [29]
• Crow of cock, [33]
• Crower, colloquial use of term, [35]
• Cuckoo, laying habit of, [1];
  • mating habits of, [3];
  • fowls, [43]
• Curl in tail of drake, [127]
• Cuttle bone for canaries, [273]
• Cygnet, [224]

• Darknecked Pheasant, [214]
• Decoration, feathers used for, [32]
• Decorative plumage, [10]
• Deer's hair for canaries' nests, [274]
• Diet of birds, [15]
• Disqualifications for exhibitions, [298]
• Domestication, adaptability of species to, [7]
• Dominique, [43], [55], [57];
  • illustrated, [43]
• Dorking, [44], [55];
  • illustrated, [44]
• Dove, origin and use of term, [240]
• Dovecots, great number of, in England in medieval times, [252]
• Down, defined, [8];
  • replaced by feathers, [11];
  • sometimes a disqualification, [299]
• Dragoon pigeon, [251];
  • illustrated, [241]
• Drawing poultry, [289]
• Dressed poultry, [283];
  • illustrated, [285]
• Dressed squabs, illustrated, [267]
• Driving turkeys to market, illustrated, [199], [280], [281]
• Droppings board, [75]
• Duck farms, illustrated, [146], [147], [149], [150]
• Dumb ducks, [127]
• Dust bath for fowls, [76]
• Dutch artists, paintings of poultry by, [48]
• Dutch races of fowls, [47]
• Dwarf fowls, [64]

• Eared Pheasants, [216]
• Earth, relation of age of, to evolution, [26]
• East India Duck, [133]
• Egg, description of, [16]
• Eggs, uses of, [4];
  • number of, set under hen, [95];
  • boiled for chicks, [98];
  • quality of ducks' and hens', compared, [124]
• Egypt, fowls in ancient, [36];
  • goose sacred in ancient, [166];
  • pigeons in, [244];
  • artificial incubation in, [305]
• Egyptian Goose, [165]
• Egyptian hieroglyphics, duck in, [127];
  • goose in, [157]
• Embryo, growth of, [16], [21]
• Emden Goose, [158];
  • illustrated, [158]
• England, colony poultry houses in, [107]
• English Pheasant, [215]
• English races of fowls, [46]
• Evolution, theory of, [25]
• Exhibition Game Bantams, [70];
  • illustrated, [37]
• Exhibitions of poultry, illustrated, [292], [297]

• Face of fowl, appearance of, [8]
• Fancier, philosophy of the, [302]
• Fanciers, influence of, on development of types, [37]
• Fancy poultry plant, illustrated, [121]
• Fantail Pigeon, [249], [296];
  • illustrated, [298]
• Farm stock of poultry, illustrated, [84]
• Fattening chickens in crates, illustrated, [279]
• Feather beds, [31]
• Feathers, uses of, [4], [31];
  • structure of, [8];
  • resistance of, to water, [15]
• Feeding young ducks on duck farm, illustrated, [153]
• Fence for ducks, [139];
  • for turkeys, [192], [197]
• Feral race, distinguished from wild, [35]
• Fertile egg, appearance of, when tested, [96]
• Feudal system, regulation under, of use of birds in hunting, [5]
• Flatheaded Canary, illustrated, [271]
• Flaxseed for canaries, [272]
• Flies, ducks catching, [144]
• Flight of birds, [2]
• Floors in poultry houses, [73]
• Fly for pigeons, [257]
• Flying machine, bird a model for, [2]
• Food, of birds, [15];
  • of fowls, [78]
• Foot feathering, [37];
  • consideration of, in judging, [295]
• Fowl, use of term, [2]
• Fowls and pheasants in same yard, illustrated, [220]
• French races of fowls, [48]
• Frillback Pigeons, illustrated, [252]
• Frizzled fowls, [65]

• Gallus Bankiva, [35];
  • cock, illustrated, [42]
• Game, resemblance of Brown Pit to wild progenitor, [27]
• Game Bantam, [37]
• Gander, [160];
  • fighting, in Russia, [162]
• Garden, keeping chickens in, [83];
  • keeping ducks in, [145]
• Germ of egg, [16]
• German artists, paintings of poultry by old, [48]
• German races of fowls, [47]
• Germany, goose growing in, [167]
• Gizzard, function of, [16];
  • peculiarity of, in ostrich, [232]
• Gobbler, use of term, [180]
• Golden Pheasant, [215]
• Goldfinch, American, erroneously called a canary, [270]
• Goose-fattening farm, illustrated, [175]
• Goslings, growth of, illustrated, [172];
  • grazing, illustrated, [174]
• Gough, John B., a noted poultry fancier, [53]
• Grade, defined, [29]
• Grass, in poultry yards, [72];
  • growing goslings on, [172]
• Grasshoppers, turkeys as destroyers of, [194]
• Gray Lag Goose, [160]
• Green ducks, [144]
• Grit, use of, for poultry, [16]
• Guinea, color pattern in feathers of, [10];
  • White, illustrated, [202], [204]
• Gunpowder, use of pigeon manure in manufacture of, [253]

• Hair, relation of, to feathers, [8]
• Hamburg, Silver-Spangled, illustrated, [46]
• Hamburg chicks, early growth of feathers of, [11]
• Handling ducks, [125]
• Handling pigeons, [262]
• Harz Mountain Canaries, [271]
• Hatching season, natural, [93]
• Hawk-colored fowls, [43]
• Hawks and guineas, [204]
• Hempseed for canaries, [274]
• Hen Pigeons, illustrated, [251]
• Hen-tailed Bantams, [70]
• Heron, flight of, [12]
• Holland Turkey, White, [182];
  • illustrated, [184], [185]
• Homer Pigeons, [243];
  • Flying, illustrated, [241], [242], [246];
  • squab-breeding, illustrated, [247];
  • squabs of, illustrated, [266]
• Houdan male, illustrated, [48]
• House,
  • for fowls, [73], [85], [101], [108];
    • illustrated, [74], [76], [77], [85]-[89], [118];
  • with open front protected by hood, illustrated, [89];
  • for growing chickens, illustrated, [99], [116];
  • old stone, on Rhode Island farm, illustrated, [100];
  • moving a colony to, [104];
  • interior of a compartment in, illustrated, [110];
  • for ducks, [138];
    • illustrated, [150], [151];
  • for geese, [169];
  • for turkeys, [190];
    • illustrated, [191];
  • for pheasants, [219]
• House and fly for pigeons, illustrated, [255], [259], [262]-[265]
• Houses at agricultural colleges and experiment stations, illustrated, [79], [88], [90], [91], [109]
• Hungarian Pheasant, [214]
• Hybrid, defined, [25]

• Ice supply on large duck farms, [154]
• Incubation, appearance of eggs at various stages of, illustrated, [20], [21];
  • period of, [96], [142], [171], [196], [205], [210], [220], [228], [236], [267], [275]
• Incubator cellar, illustrated, [115]
• Incubators, [306];
  • introduction of, on Long Island duck farms, [148];
  • mammoth, [152]
• India, antiquity of fowl in, [36];
  • peafowl in, [209]
• Indian Runner Duck, [132], [141];
  • illustrated, [132], [133]
• Insects, birds as destroyers of, [5]
• Instinct, relation of, to incubation, [19];
  • homing, in pigeons, [243]
• Intelligence of birds, [3]
• Intensive poultry farms, [110]
• Invention, relation of, to aviculture, [306]
• Italian races of fowls, [46]

• Jacobin Pigeon, illustrated, [243]
• Japan, antiquity of fowl in, [36]
• Japanese Bantams, [68];
  • illustrated, [68]
• Japanese Long-Tailed Fowl, illustrated, [52]
• Japanese races of fowls, [51]
• Java, Black, [58]
• Java, peafowl in, [209]
• Jersey Blue, [56]
• Johnnycake for chicks, [98]
• Journalism, [305]
• Judging, [293], [304]

• Kafirs, their method of pulling stumps of ostrich plumes, [238]
• Kentucky, turkeys in, [189]
• Killing poultry, [284]

• Land plaster, use of, in poultry houses, [75]
• Langshan, Black, illustrated, [40], [41]
• Language, capacity of birds for, [2]
• Laugher Pigeon, [239]
• Lavender Guinea, [203]
• Lawn clippings for poultry, [76]
• Laying capacity of birds, [18], [127]
• Laying habits of birds, [141], [170], [195], [266]
• Leaves for litter in poultry houses, [76]
• Leg of bird, contraction of, in perching, [14]
• Leghorn, [46];
  • illustrated, [10], [11], [45], [81];
  • early growth of feathers of, [11]
• Legislation relating to aviculture, [309]
• Lettuce for canaries, [273]
• Lice, how fowls rid themselves of, [77];
  • to destroy, on sitting hens, [96]
• Lime in eggshells, [16]
• Lincolnshire Buff, [63]
• Litter in poultry houses, [76], [138]
• Lizard Canary, [271]
• Long Island duck farms, [146]
• Losses due to bad handling of poultry produce, [282]
• Lyell, James C., on origin of domestic pigeon, [240]