A Guide to Breeding Pheasants and Grouse - With Chapters on Game Preserving, Hatching and Rearing, Diseases and Moor Management

A Guide to Breeding Pheasants and Grouse - With Chapters on Game Preserving, Hatching and Rearing, Diseases and Moor Management
Author: Various
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2020-08-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1528764455

Contained within this antique book is a comprehensive guide to breeding pheasants and grouse, including a wealth of important information on such topics as preservation, rearing, ailments and treatments, as well as habitat management. This helpful guide is sure to appeal to anyone with an interest in the breeding of pheasants and grouse, and it contains all the information necessary for successful endeavors in this field. The chapters of this book include: 'Why Breed Pheasants', 'Preparing for the Breeding Season', 'Rearing Pheasants and Partridges', 'Duties of the Gamekeeper', 'Rearing Game', 'Game Preserving in France', 'Grouse Disease', 'Moor Management', and 'In the Butts'. We have chosen this book for modern republication due to its timeless educational value, and we are proud to republish it now complete with a new introduction on poultry farming.

Game Management

Game Management
Author: Aldo Leopold
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 519
Release: 1987-03-13
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0299107736

With this book, published more than a half-century ago, Aldo Leopold created the discipline of wildlife management. Although A Sand Country Almanac is doubtless Leopold’s most popular book, Game Management may well be his most important. In this book he revolutionized the field of conservation.

Rearing Game Birds and Gamekeeping

Rearing Game Birds and Gamekeeping
Author: Beth Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 9781846891441

A comprehensive guide for the amateur gamekeeper, Rearing Game Birds and Gamekeeping provides practical step-by-step advice on how to raise pheasants and red-leg partridges, with a particular emphasis on the health and welfare of the birds. Beth Williams provides an insight into each species and covers a range of topics from choosing breeding stock and incubating eggs to rearing chicks and nurturing game. This hands-on guide draws on a wide range of accepted best practices, including experiences of overseas successes, and advises on rearing game in a low-cost and effective manner, without compromising on quality.