ed gray in Brown Chinese geese, 158
Fading of color in
Buff ducks, 35
Cayuga ducks, 27
Gray Call ducks, 28
Rouen ducks, 25
Fasting geese before fattening, 203
Fattening farms for geese, 199
Fattening geese,
by noodling, 196
methods of, 194
on farms in the east, 200
on farms in the middle west, 199
on large fattening farms, 199-208
pen, 195
Fattening houses or sheds for ducklings, 48
Fattening summer geese, 202
Fawn and White Runner, 37
Fawn colored breasts in Rouen females, 25
Fawn on neck, too much, in Fawn and White Runner, 37
Feather eating in ducklings, 100
Feathered legs in ducks, 19
Feathers,
saving duck, 117
saving geese, 207, 211
plucking from live geese, 212
Feed, cooperative buying of, 101
Feed cooker
for ducks, 49
cutter for ducks, 49
last, for market ducklings, 103
mixer for ducks, 49
storage for duck plant, 49
troughs or trays for ducks, 66
troughs for fattening geese, 205
wagon
for ducks, 65
for geese, 205
Feeding
breeding ducks, 63
breeding geese, 169
Call ducks, 27
ducklings, 92, 132
fattening geese, 195, 196, 203
geese during shipment, 202
goslings, 183
growing and fattening ducklings, 92-94, 132
noodles to geese, 198
show ducks, 39
show geese, 161
supply geese on fattening farms, 202
track on duck plants, 51, 65
Fences
for ducks, 52, 128
for fattening geese, 203
for geese, 168
Fertility of duck eggs, 20, 77
Fireless brooding goslings, 180
First feed
for ducklings, 92
for goslings, 183
Fish, feeding, to ducks, 63, 92, 134
Fits in ducklings, 99
Flat breast in Aylesburys, 23
Flatiron shape in Call ducks, 28
Folded feathers on neck of Pekin drake, 22
Foreign color in back of White Runner ducks, 37
Free range
for ducks, 120
for geese, 168
for goslings, 182
Freezing of ducks to the ground, 62, 128
Frequency
of plucking live geese for feathers, 212
of setting duck eggs, 72
Frightening breeding ducks, 67
ducklings, 94
fattening geese, 205

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Gains in weight
made by ducklings, 94
secured in noodling geese, 198
secured in pen fattening geese, 195
secured on goose fattening farms, 208
Gander, definition of, 149
Gapes in ducklings, 99
Geese as weed destroyers, 145
Goose eggs for hatching,
care of, 172
washing, 172
Goose fattening farms, 199
Goose raising,
as a business for farm women, 144
as a side line, 141
distribution of, 141
on general farms, 142
opportunities for, 142
Goose septicemia, 18