Feeding Poultry: The Classic Guide to Poultry Nutrition for Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Gamebirds, and Pigeons [Paperback]

G F Heuser (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 13, 2003

FEEDING POULTRY is required reading for anyone interested in giving their flocks a better diet. First published in 1955, this book is modern enough that no important point is overlooked, yet old enough that free range, green feed, home-grown grains, and small flocks are given due attention. Written by pioneering poultry scientist G. F. Heuser of Cornell University, the book is aimed at practical poultrymen in addition to poultry scientists, and this makes it more accessible than more recent works. This book is part of the Norton Creek Classics series; books from our past with an important role to play in our future.

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About the Author

G. F. (Gustave Frederick) Heuser was a pioneer in "scientific poultrykeeping," being just the third person in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in Poultry Science. His teaching and research career spanned most of the exciting "golden age of poultrykeeping," which ended around 1960 with the rise of factory farming. Heuser's work, which included over 200 articles on poultry nutrition, is as much a revelation today as ever. Heuser was also the editor of the American Poultry Association's journal, "Poultry Science," for twenty years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 644 pages
• Publisher: Norton Creek Press (May 13, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972177027
• ISBN-13: 978-0972177023
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #269,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #93 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Animal Care & Pets > Birds

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful book!, November 23, 2008

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Lisa Jordan (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feeding Poultry: The Classic Guide to Poultry Nutrition for Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Gamebirds, and Pigeons (Paperback)

We are what we eat. And when we eat animal products, we are what THEY eat, so I am very grateful to Norton Creek Press for re-printing this valuable book!

This is a great reference book for those who prefer to raise their chickens as close to Nature as possible. (We day-range our flock on pasture and supplement their natural diet with a wide variety of organic, whole grains and other healthy foods.)

This wonderful old book is full of the results of various studies on chicken-rearing from the "old days", when chickens were raised on real farms.

It answered a lot of our questions about what grains and foods are healthy and palatable for chickens and helped us figure out what proportions to use. It's rather technical, and perhaps more information than many people might want, but our copy is pretty dog-eared. We love it!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Information Than Expected, February 22, 2009

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Annie Oakley (Rancho Santa Fe, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feeding Poultry: The Classic Guide to Poultry Nutrition for Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Gamebirds, and Pigeons (Paperback)

This is a great old time book packed with information. I am not sure as a novice chicken owner that I can understand all of it yet. I expect that it will be a book that I grow into and continue to refer back to with questions as my chicken experience expands. This is not the quick read that some of the other chicken books are but it appears to be the packed with information. I am determined to have organic chickens and it is hopefully going to help me keep my girls healthy!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wisdom from an earlier era, October 18, 2010

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Emily Robertson "TruNorth" (Blaine, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feeding Poultry: The Classic Guide to Poultry Nutrition for Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Gamebirds, and Pigeons (Paperback)

This book is a product of it's times -- high regard for the scientific poultry research that had been done (as opposed to the observations of experienced farmers), but of course this was prior to the big advances in breeding grain crops or in breeding fast growing chickens, etc. So the info is very useful for farms rearing heritage birds, especially if they want to make their own feed mixes &/or pasture rear the birds. Essentially, this book offers the best info that you might have gotten from an Agricultural Extension Agent in ~1960. Good stuff!