Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edi...

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Whether you’re running a farm or interested in keeping a few backyard birds, Storey’s Guide to Raising Poultry covers everything you need to know to successfully raise your own chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, and more. Stressing humane practices throughout, Glenn Drowns provides expert advice on breed selection, housing, feeding, behavior, breeding, health care, and processing your own meat and eggs. With tips on raising specialty species like doves, ostriches, and peafowl, you’ll be inspired to experiment with new breeds and add diversity to your poultry operation.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Landwirtschaft & Gartenbau
Genre:	Importe , Umwelt
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Ökologie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781612120003
ISBN-10:	1612120008
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Drowns, Glenn
Auflage:	4. Auflage
Hersteller:	Hachette Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Glenn Drowns
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.05.2012
Gewicht:	0,751 kg