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

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

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Poultry Book - A Guide for Big or Small Poultry Keepers, Beginners and Farmers by Harry Roberts in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Animal Husbandry. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Contents
  5. Chapter I The Beginner
  6. Chapter II Breeds and Strains
  7. Chapter III Houses and Appliances
  8. Chapter IV Foods and Feeding
  9. Chapter V Hatching
  10. Chapter VI Rearing
  11. Chapter VII Backyard Poultry Keeping
  12. Chapter VIII Intensive Poultry Keeping
  13. Chapter IX Winter Egg-Production
  14. Chapter X Day-Old Chicks
  15. Chapter XI Ducks
  16. Chapter XII Turkeys
  17. Chapter XIII Geese
  18. Chapter XIV Guinea Fowls
  19. Chapter XV Diseases of Poultry
  20. Chapter XVI Enemies of Poultry
  21. Chapter XVII Egg-Preserving
  22. Chapter XVIII Killing and Shaping
  23. Chapter XIX Marketing
  24. Chapter XX Accounts
  25. Index