Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poultry
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Poultry Keeper
Author: The Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Ducks, Geese and Turkeys
Author: Fred HamsPublisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9780754823520
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Discusses what features to look for when purchasing poultry and provides information on feeding, hygiene, treating illness, and good husbandry practices.
How to Speak Chicken
Author: Melissa CaugheyPublisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1612129110
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Best-selling author Melissa Caughey knows that backyard chickens are like any favorite pet — fun to spend time with and fascinating to observe. Her hours among the flock have resulted in this quirky, irresistible guide packed with firsthand insights into how chickens communicate and interact, use their senses to understand the world around them, and establish pecking order and roles within the flock. Combining her up-close observations with scientific findings and interviews with other chicken enthusiasts, Caughey answers unexpected questions such as Do chickens have names for each other? How do their eyes work? and How do chickens learn? Foreword INDIES Silver Award Winner
The Homesteader's Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook
Author: Amy K. FewellPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493037404
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Homesteader’s Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook is the modern homesteader’s guide to raising, feeding, breeding, selling, and enjoying the noblest animal on the farm—the chicken. From the rooster’s crow in the morning, to the warm egg in the nesting box, chickens are the gateway livestock for almost every homesteader and backyard farm enthusiast. In this book, you’ll learn everything you need to know about raising chickens naturally. Fewell guides you in: understanding why chickens do what they do creating your very own poultry or egg business preventing and treating ailments with herbal remedies setting up your property, coop, and brooder hatching chicks purchasing chickens properly cooking delicious recipes with your farm fresh eggs and poultry. This is heritage chicken keeping skills 101, with a modern twist. Not only will you gain knowledge about naturally keeping chickens through every stage of their lives, but you’ll fully embrace the joy and ease of raising all-natural chickens on your homestead.
Small-Scale Poultry Keeping
Author: Ray FeltwellPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571265391
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Whether you hope to produce eggs and poultry meat for local sale, or simply relish the joy of eating your own freshly collected free-range eggs, this new addition gives invaluable advice on the type of poultry to choose, housing, feeding, breeding and general management.
The Practical Poultry Keeper
Author: Lewis WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicken breeds
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Poultry-keeper's Text Book
Author: Edward Thomas BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poultry
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Origin of breeds. Classification of breeds. Breeding. Systems of poultry-keeping. Housing. Feeding. Hatching. Rearing. Day-old chicks and conveyance of live poultry. The egg trade. Fattening. Marketing table poultry. Ducks, geese, and turkeys. General information - Artificial lighting for laying houses, etc. Diseases. Soil characteristics and land drainage. Measuring land. Poultry manure. Weights and measures.
The Practical Poultry Keeper
Author: L. WrightPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 384605741X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
The Poultry-keeper's Manual, Etc
Author: Poultry-KeeperPoultry-keeping for the Small Poultry-keeper and General Farmer
Author: C. A. FlattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farms, Small
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description