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

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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!

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!

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!