This antique text offers a practical course for producing eggs and poultry meat for the family table. The person inexperienced with chickens need have no fear of making a start, provided they have sufficient room, begin with good stock, and give their birds the proper housing, feed, and attention. Offering realistic counsel and practical guidance to novice poultry farmers, this text will be of much interest to amateur poultry farmers, and makes for a worthy addition to collections of poultry farming literature. The chapters of this book include The Small Poultry Flock, Breeds and Varieties, Houses and Equipment, Starting the Flock, Summer Management of Young Flock, What Chickens Eat, Green Food for Poultry, Feeding and Care of Laying Birds, Flock Health, Identification of NonLayer, Meat for the Table, etcetera. We are proud to be republishing this text here complete with a new introduction on poultry farming.

Binding: Paperback;164 pages; Publisher: Read Books; Classification: N/A; Weight: 336.82 g; Dimensions: N/A

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