Mating and Breeding of Poultry

This special re-print edition of Lamon and Slocum's book “The Mating and Breeding of Poultry” provides insight into the subject of breeding poultry. Published in 1920, this text explores the breeding of standard and other poultry for exhibition, production and leisure. Chapters include Principles of Breeding, Breeding For Increased Production, The American Class, The Asiatic Class, The English Class, The Mediteranean Class, The Polish Class, The Hamburg Class, The French Class, The Continental Class, Games and Game Bantams, The Oriental Class, The Ornamental Bantam Class, The Misc Class, Preparing Fowl for Exhibition and more. Included are details on dozens of standard breeds of Poultry. One of the most detailed books of its kind. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

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.