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Title: Poultry; A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of All Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition, Fourth Edition [Illustrated]
Author: Hugh Piper
Language: angielski
Year: 2012
Subjects: Science & Technology, Nature, Agricultural Sciences, Birds, Agriculture - General & Miscellaneous, Animal Husbandry, Birds - General, Birds - Other
Publisher: VolumesOfValue
ISBN: 1447488148
Total pages: 424

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes

CONTENTS
GENERAL MANAGEMENT.
CHAPTER I. - Introduction
Neglect of Poultry-breeding - Profit of Poultry-keeping - Value to the Farmer - Poultry Shows - Cottage Poultry.
CHAPTER II. - The Fowl-House
Size of the House - Brick and Wood - Cheap Houses - The Roof - Ventilation - Light - Warmth - The Flooring - Perches - Movable Frame - Roosts for Cochin-Chinas and Brahma-Pootras - Nests for laying - Cleanliness - Fowls' Dung - Doors and Entrance-holes - Lime-washing - Fumigating - Raising Chickens under Glass.
CHAPTER III. - The Fowl-Yard
Soil - Situation - Covered Run - Pulverised Earth for deodorising - Diet for confined Fowls - Height of Wall, &c. - Preventing Fowls from flying - The Dust-heap - Material for Shells - Gravel - The Gizzard - The Grass Run.
CHAPTER IV. - Food
Table of relative constituents and qualities of Food - Barley - Wheat - Oats - Meal - Refuse Corn - Boiling Grain - Indian Corn, or Maize - Buckwheat - Peas, Beans and Tares - Rice - Hempseed - Linseed - Potatoes - Roots - Soft Food - Variety of Food - Quantity - Mode of Feeding - Number of Meals - Grass and [vi]Vegetables - Insects - Worms - Snails and Slugs - Animal Food - Water - Fountains.
CHAPTER V. - Eggs
Eggs all the Year round - Warmth essential to laying - Forcing Eggs - Soft Shells - Shape and Colour of Eggs - The Air-bag - Preserving Eggs - Keeping and Choosing Eggs for setting - Sex of Eggs - Packing Setting-eggs for travelling.
CHAPTER VI. - The Sitting Hen
Evil of restraining a Hen from sitting - Checking the Desire - A separate House and Run - Nests for sitting in - Damping Eggs - Filling for Nests - Choosing their own Nests - Choosing a Hen for sitting - Number and Age of Eggs - Food and Exercise - Absence from the Nest - Examining the Eggs - Setting two Hens on the same day - Time of Incubation - The "tapping" sound - Breaking the Shell - Emerging from the Shell - Assisting the Chicken - Artificial Mothers - Artificial Incubation.
CHAPTER VII. - Rearing and Fattening Fowls
The Chicken's first Food - Cooping the Brood - Basket and Wooden Coops - Feeding Chickens - Age for Fattening - Barn-door Fattening - Fattening-Houses - Fattening-Coops - Food - "Cramming" - Capons and Poulardes - Killing Poultry - Plucking and packing Fowls - Preserving Feathers.
CHAPTER VIII. - Stock, Breeding, and Crossing
Well-bred Fowls - Choice of Breed - Signs of Age - Breeding in-and-in - Number of Hens to one Cock - Choice of a Cock - To prevent Cocks from fighting - Choice of a Hen - Improved Breeds - Origin of Breeds - Crossing - Choice of Breeding Stock - Keeping a Breed pure.
CHAPTER IX. - Poultry Shows
The first Show - The first Birmingham Show - Influence of Shows - Exhibition Rules - Hatching for Summer and Winter Shows - Weight - Exhibition Fowls sitting - Matching Fowls - Imparting lustre to the Plumage - Washing Fowls - Hampers - Travelling - Treatment on Return - Washing the Hampers and Linings - Exhibition Points - Technical Terms.