Glenn Drowns

Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edition (eBook, ePUB)

Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guineas, Game Birds

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This classic guide to chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, and game birds is now fully revised and expanded to inform and support backyard hobbyists and small farmers who want to use natural, humane practices and raise a variety of interesting breeds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781603427685
• Artikelnr.: 37945456

Autorenporträt

Glenn Drowns, author of Showing Poultry and Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edition, and his wife conserve and promote rare breeds and varieties of turkeys, ducks, geese, and chickens at their Sand Hill Preservation Center in Calamus, Iowa. Drowns, a highly respected poultry judge, has raised standard turkey varieties since 1989, and he received the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy's Breed Conservation Award in 1999 for his contributions to the identification and survival of rare turkeys.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Getting Started
1 Should I Raise Poultry?
2 Housing and Supplies
3 Poultry Biology
4 Baby Basics
5 Feeds and Feeding
6 Heritage Breeds
Part 2: Choosing the Right Chickens
7 Laying Chickens
8 Meat Chickens
9 Dual-Purpose Chickens
10 Bantams
11 Ornamental Chickens
Part 3: Turkeys, Waterfowl, Guineas, and More
12 Turkeys
13 Waterfowl
14 Guineas
15 Coturnix Quail
16 Game Birds
17 The "Uncommon" Poultry
Part 4: Fowl Practices
18 Incubation
19 Home Processing
20 So, You Want to Be a Breeder?
21 Marketing and Sales
22 Showing Poultry
23 Poultry as Pets
Part 5: The Bigger Picture
24 Growing Your Own Feed
25 Flock Health
26 Dealing with Predators
27 Government Regulation
28 Calendar Considerations
Appendix
A: Poultry Feed Requirements
B: Characteristics Indicating High and Low Egg Production Characteristics
of Layers and Nonlayers
C: U.S. Weight Classes for Shell Eggs
D: U.S. Standards for Quality of Individual Shell Eggs
E: Incubation Troubleshooting Chart
F: Poultry Ailments Checklist and Diagnostic Aids
G: Using a Wet-Bulb System
H: Types of Rodenticides
I: Poultry Manure Information
Resources
Glossary
Index