March 30, 1977 ... wild in the barnyard (cont’d) Page 2 - SUSQUEHANNA TIMES TIRE SALE During breeding season ; . vis % . . . : ; x : ; t (which is now in progress) Our 4 ply Polyester tires are now on sale. Be an early bird le 4h , | Ed keeps 48 cockbirds and and buy your tires now thru April 29th and save money. he Sedan + tinimn 430 pens. These will supply the 10,00 chicks for next fall's market. “I used to have six-to-one sex ratio. "he explains, ‘‘but the |, males were too nervous, They need ten to keep them satisfied.” Once mating season is over, the male pheasants relax. ‘‘They’re great friends by July,” Ed notes. During the summer he has ¥ only the regular fighting + frenzy to contend with. Daisy told us that she and Ed eat the cracked eggs they pick up this time of year. She finds them = ‘‘sweeter’’ than chicken eggs, but thinks this is because the birds lead a healthier life than the aver- age chicken, which spends .= its life in a tiny, continu- Attention—our tires have a road hazard protection policy as well as a guarantee against failure due to workmanship or material defects. Most tires you can buy today donot. Ask us for details. | : Le : 3) ; A78-13 C78-14 G78-14,15 B78-13 E78-14 H78-14, 15 560-15 F78-14 S239 528° S339 PLUS FET OF 170 to 279 ® Rs nn gb ~ously-lit cage, and eats EE Te SEN © amphetamines mixed with tt INCREASE YOUR PREPARE YOUR | SNOW TIRE TAKE- no mtr df PCIE RL esl, mie its feed. S TIRE MILEAGE WITH CAR FOR SPRING OFF ‘‘SPECIAL” os SRL we ha GT Am Like the human children OUR HUNTER ELEC- 5 QTS OF MOBIL CHANGE ROTATE & ‘ in th in the science fiction book TRONIC DYNAMIC SUPER 10W-40 OIL— BALANCE 2 TIRES A cockbird (male. pheasant) Sedss In Ais fone He Brave Row Word, ack. G WHEEL BALANCE QUALITY LUBE AND pen. Males stake out territory at this time of year an teed int . F will rip apart any other male who trespasses. are raised In trays in an ; SPECIAL NEW OIL FILTER pap y incubator first, and then ve $ 1 2° SQ75 51 19 [continued from page one] ers.” The females, how- brooder. The temperature 3 ALL FOUR A SUPER The mating patterns, as ever, are fickle. They is lowered 5 degrees each WHEELS VALUE well as the violence, of wander from territory to week, from 100 degrees ! some large cities are also territory, and from male to down to 70 in the six weeks , h reflected in the behavior of male. after the hatching. A group : Mr. Sweigart’s birds: “The “Pheasants in the wild of birds stays together from : males stake out a territory are good mothers,”” Ed hatching to sale. in the pen. They dare not continues, ‘‘but due to the Before they hatch, the I » ER E trespass on another’s terri- stress of crowding, they eggs must be tilted in a : tory during mating season, neglect their eggs.” They different direction every : 271 WEST MARKET STREET MARIETTA, PA PHONE 426-3430 or they'll be pecked to not only neglect to build four hours to keep the 0 pieces. To attract females, nests (dropping the eggs yolk free. If it attaches to “i they call and put on a big anywhere) but will eat their the shell wall, the chick th display of their tail feath- own eggs if Ed and his wife don’t pick them up every two hours. ‘‘They’ll can’t peck its way out. Daisy and Ed have been raising pheasants for 30 sli P ] drop one, turn right years. They started as a a m around, and peck at it. hobby, to supply Ed’s They start pecking out of personal game birds, and Sunda curiosity they've never gradually expanded. 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