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    Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edition: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guineas, Game Birds

    Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edition: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guineas, Game Birds

    by Glenn Drowns


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      ISBN-13: 9781603427685
    • Publisher: Storey Books
    • Publication date: 05/22/2012
    • Series: Belle Prater
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 464
    • File size: 21 MB
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    Glenn Drowns, author of Showing Poultry and Storey’s Guide to Raising Poultry, 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.

    Table of Contents

    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

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    Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry is the only book you need to naturally and humanely raise a wide range of poultry, from chickens and turkeys to waterfowl and game birds -- even uncommon species, such as pigeons, emus, doves, ostriches, peafowl, and swans. Whether you’re running a farm or raising a few birds in the backyard, Glenn Drowns tells you everything you need to know about breed selection, housing, space requirements, behavior, breeding, hatching, feeding, health care, and the business of processing meat and eggs. This revised edition includes new and updated information on health and disease, raising birds on pasture, growing your own feed, housing, breeding, slaughtering, and marketing.

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