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Poultry: A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition - Softcover
"This seems to be a very sensible and clearly written little work, and to contain all the information that a breeder of poultry can desire. We should be glad to learn that such treatises as this spread more widely the taste for keeping poultry, and so everywhere introduce to our rural cottages a sure and not inconsiderable source of income, which at present is too much neglected." -Saturday Review
"Useful." -The Spectator
This work is intended as a practical guide to those about to commence Poultry keeping, and to provide those who already have experience on the subject with the most trustworthy information compiled from the best authorities of all ages, and the most recent improvements in Poultry Breeding and Management.
Until of late years the breeding of poultry has been almost generally neglected in Great Britain. Any kind of mongrel fowl would do for a farmer's stock, although he fully appreciated the importance of breeding in respect of his cattle and pigs, and the value of improved seeds. Had he thought at all upon the subject, it must have occurred to him that poultry might be improved by breeding from select specimens as much as any other kind of live stock.
In this work we shall consider the accommodation and requisites for keeping fowls successfully on a moderate scale, and the reader must adapt them to his own premises, circumstances, and requirements. Everywhere there must be some alterations, omissions, or compromises. We shall state the essentials for their proper accommodation, and describe the mode of constructing houses, sheds, and arranging runs, and the reader must then form his plan according to his own wishes, resources, and the capabilities of the place. The climate of Great Britain being so very variable in itself, and differing in its temperature so much in different parts, no one manner or material for building the fowl-house can be recommended for all cases.
The great secret of success in keeping fowls profitably is to hatch chiefly in March and April; encourage the pullets by proper feeding to lay at the age of six months; and fatten and dispose of them when about nineteen months old, just before their first adult moult; and never to allow a cockerel to exceed the age of fourteen weeks before it is fattened and disposed of.
CONTENTS.
GENERAL MANAGEMENT.
CHAPTER I.—Introduction
CHAPTER II.—The Fowl-House
CHAPTER III.—The Fowl-Yard
CHAPTER IV.—Food
CHAPTER V.—Eggs
CHAPTER VI.—The Sitting Hen
CHAPTER VII.—Rearing and Fattening Fowls
CHAPTER VIII.—Stock, Breeding, and Crossing
CHAPTER IX.—Poultry Shows BREEDS.
CHAPTER X.— Cochin-Chinas, or Shanghaes
CHAPTER XI.— Brahma-Pootras
CHAPTER XII.— Malays
CHAPTER XIII.— Game
CHAPTER XIV.— Dorkings
CHAPTER XV.— Spanish
CHAPTER XVI.— Hamburgs
CHAPTER XVII.— Polands
CHAPTER XVIII.— Bantams
CHAPTER XIX.— French and Various
CHAPTER XX.— Turkeys
CHAPTER XXI.— Guinea-Fowls
CHAPTER XXII.— Ducks
CHAPTER XXIII.— Geese
CHAPTER XXIV.— Diseases
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About the Author:
Hugh Piper was also the author of "Pigeons: Their Varieties, Management, Breeding and Diseases"
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1537480413
- ISBN 13 9781537480411
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages194
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