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

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: "e;The Beginner"e;, "e;Breeds and Strains"e;, "e;Houses and Appliances"e;, "e;Foods and Feeding"e;, "e;Hatching"e;, "e;Rearing"e;, "e;Backyard Poultry Keeping"e;, "e;Intensive Poultry Keeping"e;, "e;Winter Egg Production"e;, "e;Day Old Chicks"e;, "e;Ducks"e;, "e;Turkeys"e;, "e;Geese"e;, "e;Guinea Fowls"e;, "e;Diseases of Poultry"e;, "e;Vermin"e;, "e;Egg Preserving"e;, "e;Killing and Shaping"e;, "e;Plucking, Drawing, Trussing"e;, 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.