OPENING OF A FOWL’S CROP.
A correspondent in the Fanciers' Gazette writes :—I do not know if the operation be common in England, but it is often performed north of the Tweed. It is a verysimple one, and not at all dangerous. I have known it beneficial in case of poisining when taken in time. I was rather surprised, as well as amused, the first time I saw the thing done. I was having a new kilt tried on in Inverness-shire, when the knight of the bodkin dropped his thimble. One of the ducks who were waddling about the floor but which was the poser. At any rate, the worthy kilt-builder did not hesitate one moment. He caught a duck and turned its crop out; it wasn’t there, and he sewed it up at once. Then he caught another and secured the thimble. In the meantime I stood looking on with no clothes worth mentioning, barring my waistcoat —a very Highland indeed, but interested spectator.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 319, 21 June 1875, Page 3
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