Poultry Keeping on Money Making Lines: Poultry Farming As A Profession (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542919081)

This special re-print edition of the W. Powell-Owen's book "Poultry Keeping Along Money Making Lines" is a complete guide to raising chickens for eggs, meat or exhibition for profit. Written in 1919, this classic English text on poultry contains the basics of raising poultry, be it for eggs, for meat purposes or for pleasure. Included are all the basic elements of breed selection, coops and other forms of housing, how to hatch eggs, care of young chicks and much more. The text is specifically written from the standpoint of making money from poultry raising. Some of the topics covered include The Home Poultry Industry, Branches of Poultry Husbandry, All About Eggs, Hatching Eggs, Rearing Chicks, Feeding For Eggs, Breeding For Eggs, Poultry Breeds As You Should Know Them, The Would Be Poultry Farmer, Principles of Poultry Housing, Month by Month With Poultry, Raising Meat Chickens, Ducks For Eggs and Meat, Geese, Guinea Fow and Turkeys, Bantams, Poultry Farming As a Profession and much more. In our opinion, this is one of the best classic books on the subject of keeping poultry for profit. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

Author: Jackson Chambers,W. Powell-Owen
ISBN-10: 1542919088
ISBN-13: 9781542919081
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2017
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.61d