The Game Cock: From the Shell to the Pit - A Comprehensive Treatise on Gameness, Selecting, Mating, Breeding, Walking and Conditionin
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The Game Cock: From the Shell to the Pit - A Comprehensive Treatise on Gameness, Selecting, Mating, Breeding, Walking and Conditionin

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The Game Cock: From the Shell to the Pit - A Comprehensive Treatise on Gameness, Selecting, Mating, Breeding, Walking and Conditionin

About this book

THE GAME COCK FROM THE SHELL TO THE PIT. A Comprehensive Treatise on Gameness, Selecting, Mating, Breeding, Walking and Conditioning. Etc. By Geo. W. Means. This important Game Fowl book was first published in the U.S.A. in 1911 and is now a very rare item in its first edition. READ COUNTRY BOOKS has now re-published it from the original text thereby making it more available to a wider readership. In this book the author has undertaken to treat fully every subject pertaining to the Game Fowl in which the practical cocker and breeder may be interested. He has had over thirty years experience in mating, breeding, conditioning and handling Game Fowl, and gives his views not based upon theories but on knowledge derived from practice. Two hundred pages contain seventeen detailed chapters on:- Technical Expressions. - Selecting Brood Stock. - Heredity. - The Test. - Brood Yards. - The Egg and the Nest. - The Setting Hen. - Care of Chicks. - Trimming Stags. - Walking. - Preparing for a Main. - Selecting for a Main. - Some General Directions. - System of Conditioning. - Heeling and Handling. - Diseases. - Rules for the Pit. This comprehensive book can be thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all with an interest in Game Fowl.

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Information

Publisher
Read Country Books
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781905124558
eBook ISBN
9781446545065

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. I. Technical Expressions
  5. II. Selecting Brood Stock
  6. III. Heredity
  7. IV. The Test
  8. V. Brood Yards
  9. VI. The Egg and The Nest
  10. VII. The Setting Hen
  11. VIII. Care of Chicks
  12. IX. Trimming Stags
  13. X. Walking
  14. XI. Preparing for a Main
  15. XII. Selecting for a Main
  16. XIII. Some General Directions
  17. XIV. System of Conditioning
  18. XV. Heeling and Handling
  19. XVI. Diseases
  20. XVII. Rules for the Pit