Practical Poultry Keeping is a clear, in-depth guide to this topical subject that will enable anyone to keep poultry for pleasure or profit. Fully illustrated throughout with photographs and explanatory line-drawings, it includes poultry breeds and uses; poultry housing and equipment; breeding and sexing birds; common problems with eggs; natural and artificial incubation and rearing; nutrition and diet; rearing birds for the table; effective planning, management, and marketing; and recognizing and preventing common diseases.
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AWESOME REFERENCE,
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This book is a GEM. It has earned a place on my bookshelf and I refer to it often when a question arises. This is the first book I've seen that explains the sex link crosses - HOW to produce chicks that are "sex linked" (males white females dark or otherwise distinctively marked so you can tell without question at hatching which to rear for layers and which to feed for meat). So many here keep it some secret as those mixed bred chicks are big sellers here. You can produce your own! And it explains *how* an egg is produced. The explanations within are easy to read and understand and it is done without talking down to the reader. Some of the things in it are in "UK terms" (it's an English book) but is very very useful to the small poultry producer here. From care and rearing of chickens to showing to management to breeding this book has the answers. It's more concise than many US poultry books but is WELL WORTH the money. EXCELLENT reference from a man who KNOWS chickens.
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This book has been written after forty-five years' experience of practical poultry farming and will guide the reader step by step through each of the various stages of setting up and maintaining a unit, which will not only conform to welfare legislation but will be viable, avoiding many, if not all, of the common errors so frequently encountered at the cost of the producer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This book has been written after forty-five years' experience of practical poultry farming and will guide the reader step by step through each of the various stages of setting up and maintaining a unit, which will not only conform to welfare legislation but will be viable, avoiding many, if not all, of the common errors so frequently encountered at the cost of the producer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rhode Island Red, Light Sussex, Brown Leghorn, White Leghorn, Black Rock New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling on page 9
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- Just So Stories (M-Books) by Rudyard Kipling on page 9
- Exhibition Poultry Keeping by David Scrivener in Back Matter
- Bantams: A Guide to Keeping, Breeding and Showing by J. C. Jeremy Hobson on page 127
- Turkeys by David Bland in Front Matter
- The Smallholder's Manual by Katie Thear in Back Matter
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