Take Barley meal, and with droppings of small Ale, (or Ale it self) make it into a consistence of batter for Pan-cakes.  Let this be all their food.  Which put into the troughs before them, renewing it thrice a day, morning, noon and evening; making their troughs very clean every time, and keeping their Coops always very clean and sweet.  This is to serve them for drink as well as meat, and no other drink be given them.  Feed them thus six days; the seventh give them nothing in their troughs but powder of brick searced, which scowreth and cleanseth them much, and makes their flesh exceeding white.  The next day fall to their former food for six days more, and the seventh again to powder of Brick.  Then again to barley Meal and Ale.  Thus they will be exceeding fat in fifteen days, and purely white and sweet.

TO FATTEN YOUNG CHICKENS IN A WONDERFULL DEGREE

Boil Rice in Milk till it be very tender and Pulpy, as when you make Milk Potage.  It must be thick, almost so thick, that a spoon may stand an-end in it.  Sweeten this very well with ordinary Sugar.  Put this into their troughs where they feed, that they may be always eating of it.  It must be made fresh every day.  Their drink must be onely Milk, in another little trough by their meat-trough.  Let a candle (fitly disposed) stand by them all night; for seeing their meat, they will eat all night long.  You put the Chicken up, as soon as they can feed of themselves; which will be within a day or two after they are hatched, and in twelve days, or a fortnight, they will be prodigiously fat; but after they have come to their height, they will presently fall back.  Therefore they must be eaten as soon as they are come to their height.  Their Pen or Coop must be contrived so, that the Hen (who must be with them, to sit over them) may not go at liberty to eat away their meat, but be kept to her own diet, in a part of the Coop that she cannot get out of.  But the Chicken must have liberty to go from her to other parts of the Coop, where they may eat their own meat, and come in again to the Hen, to be warmed by her, at their pleasure.  You must be careful to keep their Coop very clean.

TO FEED CHICKEN

Fatten your Chicken the first week with Oatmeal scalded in Milk; the second with Rice and Sugar in Milk.  In a fortnight they will be prodigiously fat.  It is good to give them sometimes a little Gravel, or powder of Glass, to cleanse their maws, and give them appetite.

If you put a little bran with their meat, it will keep their maws clean, and give them appetite.

ANOTHER EXCELLENT WAY TO FATTEN CHICKEN