The Mating and Breeding of Poultry (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Harry M. Lamon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1528043839 ISBN 13: 9781528043830

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A practical guide to breeding and showing poultry, packed with clear, experience-based guidance.

Learn how careful mating and selection can improve both health and exhibition quality in barnyard flocks.

This edition focuses on real-world methods for choosing breeders, planning matings, and avoiding common defects. It covers color, feathering, comb type, and undercolor, with step-by-step ideas you can apply to improve your stock and your show wins.

• How to plan multiple entries and use timing to improve placement in exhibitions.
• Practical advice on color standards, feather patterns, and common faults to avoid.
• Strategies for single and double mating to balance traits in both sexes.
• Guidance for evaluating breeders, managing stock, and preparing birds for shows.

Ideal for hobbyists and professional breeders alike, this book is a helpful reference for anyone aiming to raise better show birds and understand the traits judges look for in competition.

About this title

From the Back Cover

A resurgence of chicken farming has swept the nation as people worldwide are becoming more concerned about where their food is coming from. In addition to raising the birds, poultrymen and women can produce specific characteristics in their flocks. This is the only book - first published in 1920 and now back in print - to outline in detail all the necessities to becoming an accomplished breeder. Whether one is breeding for beauty, as in exhibition stock, or for productivity, as in food, this book will teach how to: pick and choose chickens for specific circumstances; manipulate shape and color combinations; prepare birds for weather; develop certain psychological characteristics; encourage the juiciest meat and largest eggs.
In addition, readers will get a crash course in: the principles of breeding; classes of poultry; how to run a larger-scale operation.
Illustrated throughout with numerous line drawings and easy-to-follow instructions, this book teaches everything one needs to know to raise just the right chickens for them.

About the Author

HARRY M. LAMON and ROB R. SLOCUM were the Senior Poultrymen at the Bureau of Animal Industry for the US Department of Agriculture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1528043839
• ISBN 13: 9781528043830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 369