Poultry Book - A Guide for Big or Small Poultry Keepers, Beginners and Farmers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781846641039)

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.

Author: Harry Roberts
ISBN-10: 1846641039
ISBN-13: 9781846641039
Publisher: Read Country Book
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2006
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d