Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Yoreh Deah/292

Section A: Editing The sending of the nest is only practiced with clean birds, even if the mother is torn, and even if there is only one chick or one egg, it is necessary to send it.

Section B: Editing A ready-made nest, such as pigeons that are raised with humans in houses, and geese and chickens that were purchased in a poultry house, are exempt. However, pigeons from the wild and migratory birds, and birds that were purchased in clay vessels built into walls where birds are kept, as well as in wells and orchards, are obligated to be sent. This is only if they have not been raised above the eggs at all, from the time they have been laid. But if they have been raised above them, if these places are his, he is entitled to their pasture, and it becomes ready-made for him and exempt.

Section C: Editing And in every place where we find them, whether in a tree, in the ground, or in wells, caves, the sea, or on top of a person's head, or on top of another person's head, whether in a public domain or in a private domain, it is necessary to send them.

Section D: Editing One must send the mother until she is removed from under his hand, and only then take the chicks. If he wants to cut her wings before sending her so that she cannot fly away, he is not allowed. Rather, he must send her immediately with her wings so that she can fly. And after she is removed from his hand, he may take her if he desires, and if he cuts her wings, she may be kept until her wings grow and then sent.

Section E: Editing If he wants to take the mother and send the chicks, he is not allowed to send her and bring her back repeatedly, even several times. He must return and send her. However, if he sent her and then took the chicks and returned them to the nest and then brought them back again, he is exempt from sending her.

Section F: Editing If he took the mother above the chicks and did not send her, he must send her and he is exempt.

Section G: Editing If the eggs were strange, or the chicks were blooming, or they are torn, or if a male bird crouches on the nest, or if an unclean bird crouches on the eggs of a clean bird, or if a clean bird crouches on the eggs of an unclean bird, he is exempt from sending (Laws of Ritual Slaughter 13:10).

Section H: Editing If she perched on eggs that are not of her species, and they are clean, he must send her, and if he does not send her, he is not culpable (Laws of Ritual Slaughter 13:11).

Section I: Editing If she had a towel or the wings of another bird touching her, or there were two rows of eggs one on top of the other, and her wings touching the upper row, whether she was on top of the mother or if the male bird was on top of the nest, and the mother on top of the male bird, he must send her. And if he does not send her, he is not culpable (Laws of Ritual Slaughter 13:14).

Section J: Editing If he slaughtered some of the signs of the chicks within the nest before taking her, he must send her, and if he does not send her, he is not culpable (Laws of Ritual Slaughter 13:12).

Section K: Editing If she was hovering above the nest and her wings are touching the nest, he is obligated to send her. And if not, he is exempt, even though they are touching from the side (Laws of Ritual Slaughter 13:13).

Section L: Editing If she was sitting between the eggs or between the chicks, even if she touches them, she is exempt (Laws of Ritual Slaughter 13:15).

Section M: Editing If she was sitting on both branches of a tree and the nest, and there is anything dangling that could fall on them, he is obligated to send her. And if not, he is exempt (Laws of Ritual Slaughter 13:16).