In falconry, a day-old cockerel or DOC is a recently-hatched male chicken of a breed which is bred for egg-laying, but its males are no use for rearing for eating as roasting chicken. Falconry or hawking is an Art or Sport which involves the use of trained raptors (birds of prey to hunt or pursue game for humans The chicken ( Gallus gallus, sometimes G gallus domesticus) is a domesticated Fowl which is traditionally believed to have descended from They are available in large numbers as a by-product of commercial rearing of laying hens, and have greatly simplified the problem of where to get feed for falconry birds. Falconry or hawking is an Art or Sport which involves the use of trained raptors (birds of prey to hunt or pursue game for humans
Their guts still contain a quantity of yolk of the egg that they developed from. An egg yolk is the part of an egg which serves as the Food source for the developing Embryo inside Many falconers prefer to remove this yolk before feeding the DOC to the raptor.
Many falconers prefer to intersperse the DOCs with food more nutritious per volume such as rats or quails. Rats are various medium sized long-tailed Rodents of the superfamily Muroidea Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized Birds in the Pheasant family Phasianidae, or in the family Odontophoridae.
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