Poultry Book - A Guide for Big or Small Poultry Keepers, Beginners and Farmers

by Harry Roberts

Overview

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to keeping poultry on a small and large scale, with detailed information on selection and breeding, feeding, rearing, housing, plucking, and all other related aspects. Contents include: "The Beginner", "Breeds and Strains", "Houses and Appliances", "Foods and Feeding", "Hatching", "Rearing", "Backyard Poultry Keeping", "Intensive Poultry Keeping", "Winter Egg Production", "Day Old Chicks", "Ducks", "Turkeys", "Geese", "Guinea Fowls", "Diseases of Poultry", "Vermin", "Egg Preserving", "Killing and Shaping", "Plucking, Drawing, Trussing", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on poultry farming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846641039
Publisher:	Read Country Book
Publication date:	04/12/2006
Edition description:	Illustrate
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.68(d)