<p>This vintage book contains a detailed guide to breeding and rearing chickens, with information on different systems, construction of accommodation, feeding, breeding, rearing, and many other related aspects. Although old, the information contained within this book is timeless and will be of considerable utility to the modern reader with an interest in raising laying hens. Contents include: Accommodation, Breed and Strain, Feeding and Management, Breeding and Rearing, and Counting The Cost . Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on poultry farming."</p>

How to Keep Laying Hens and to Rear Chickens

Engineering & Transportation

Elkington, W. M.

Engineering

Read Country Book

This special re-print edition of James Long's book “Poultry For Prizes: A Guide to the Breeding and Management of All Varieties of Poultry For Exhibitions” is a complete guide to raising poultry of all types, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and others, for exhibition purposes. Written in 1909, this classic text contains information on how to raise poultry, including chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese for meat purposes. Chapters include A Hobby and An Industry, Laws of Breeding, Management of Exhibition Stock, Preparing For Exhibition, The Points of a Fowl, Brahmas and Cochins, Dorkings, Langshans, Orpingtons, Wyandottes and Plymouth Rocks, English Games, Asiatic Games, Hamburghs and Redcaps, Bantams, Waterfowl, Turkeys and more. This is a complete guide to raising poultry and waterfowl for exhibition purposes and includes old fashioned tricks of the trade for successful exhibition breeding. One of the only 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.

Poultry For Prizes: A Guide to the Breeding and Management of All Varieties of Poultry For Exhibition

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Long, James

Pets & Animal Care

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