hem go abroad
with a keeper five or six hours in a day, and let the dam at her
leisure entice them into the water; then bring them in, and put them
up, and thus order them till they be able to defend themselves from
vermine. After a gosling is a month or six weeks old you may put it
up to feed for a green goose, & it will be perfectly fed in another
month following; and to feed them, there is no better meat then skeg
oats boil'd, and given plenty thereof thrice a day, morning, noon,
and night, with good store of milk, or milk and water mixt together
to drink.

_For fatting of elder Geese._

For elder geese which are five or six months old, having been in the
stubble fields after harvest, and got into good flesh, you shall
then choose out such geese as you would feed, and put them in
several Pens which are close and dark, and there feed them thrice a
day with good store of oats, or spelted beans, and give them to
drink water and barly meal mixt together, which must evermore stand
before them. This will in three weeks feed a goose so fat as is
needfull.

_The fatting of Ducklings._

You may make them fat in three weeks giving them any kind of pulse
or grain, and good store of water.

_Fatting of Swans and Cygnets._

For Swans and their feeding, where they build their nests, you shall
suffer them to remain undisturbed, and it will be sufficient because
they can better order themselves in that business than any man.

Feed your Cygnets in all sorts as you feed your Geese, and they will
be through fat in seven or eight weeks. If you will have them sooner
fat, you shall feed them in some pond hedged, or placed in for that
purpose.

_Of fatting Turkies._

For the fatting of turkies sodden barley is excellent, or sodden
oats for the first fortnight, and then for another fortnight cram
them in all sorts as you cram your capon, and they will be fat
beyond measure. Now for their infirmities, when they are at liberty,
they are so good _Physitians_ for themselves, that they will never
trouble their owners; but being coopt up you must cure them as you
do pullets. Their eggs are exceeding wholesome to eat, and restore
nature decayed wonderfully.

Having a little dry ground where they may sit and prune themselves,
place two troughs, one full of barley and water, and the other full
of old dried malt wherein they may feed at their pleasure. Thus
doing, they will be fat in less than a month: but you must turn