Practical Poultry Breeder - Or, How to Make Poultry Pay

By William Cook

Book Overview

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to poultry farming, with information on selection, breeding, feeding, housing, diseases and ailments, and much more. Although old, the information of this volume is timeless and will be of considerable utility to the modern reader with an interest in poultry farming. Contents include: "General Remarks", "Houses and Runs", "What are the Best Fowls to Keep", "Feeding", "How to Breed, and What to Breed From", "Pure Bred Fowls", "Bantams", "Cross-Bred Fowls", "Sussex and Sussex Fowls", "Poultry Farming and Keeping", "Preparing Birds for the Show Pen", and "Diseases". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on poultry farming.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1443759082
• ISBN13: 9781443759083
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Herron Press
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"