Author: Harry Roberts

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2013-04-16

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1447487303

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.