Introduction

This early work on poultry husbandry is a fascinating read for any poultry enthusiast, but also contains much information that is still useful and practical today. It will prove of much interest to the amateur poultry keeper as well as those in the field of agriculture. Extensively illustrated with text and full page photographs.

Contents Include

Should I Keep Poultry?

What Size Flock?

Poultry Houses and Fixtures

Selecting High Quality Stock

When and How to Start

Brooding Chicks

Rearing

Management and Selection of Growing Stock

Laying Flock Management

Culling and Selection

Candling, Grading and Preserving Eggs

Growing Meat Chickens

Killing and Dressing Poultry

Marketing Poultry

Cleaning and Sanitation

Poultry Diseases

Poultry Breeding

Keep Poultry Accounts

Home-Grown Crops for Poultry

Basic Ways to Cook Poultry and Eggs

and an Index. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.