Small-Scale Poultry Keeping

Small-Scale Poultry Keeping
Author: Ray Feltwell
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2011-03-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0571265391

Whether you hope to produce eggs and poultry meat for local sale, or simply relish the joy of eating your own freshly collected free-range eggs, this new addition gives invaluable advice on the type of poultry to choose, housing, feeding, breeding and general management.

Poultry Book

Poultry Book
Author: Harry Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1949
Genre: Poultry
ISBN:

The Homesteader's Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook

The Homesteader's Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook
Author: Amy K. Fewell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1493037404

TheHomesteader’s Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook is the modern homesteader’s guide to raising, feeding, breeding, selling, and enjoying the noblest animal on the farm—the chicken. From the rooster’s crow in the morning, to the warm egg in the nesting box, chickens are the gateway livestock for almost every homesteader and backyard farm enthusiast. In this book, you’ll learn everything you need to know about raising chickens naturally. Fewell guides you in: understanding why chickens do what they do creating your very own poultry or egg business preventing and treating ailments with herbal remedies setting up your property, coop, and brooder hatching chicks purchasing chickens properly cooking delicious recipes with your farm fresh eggs and poultry. This is heritage chicken keeping skills 101, with a modern twist. Not only will you gain knowledge about naturally keeping chickens through every stage of their lives, but you’ll fully embrace the joy and ease of raising all-natural chickens on your homestead.

Pastured Poultry Profits

Pastured Poultry Profits
Author: Joel Salatin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Chicken industry
ISBN: 9780963810908

A proven production model is described, which is capable of producing an income from a small acreage of equal or superior to that of off-farm jobs.

Poultry-keeping

Poultry-keeping
Author: E Comyns-Lewer
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1910226017

Keeping chickens is a very popular hobby today but it was just as popular in 1918, albeit for different reasons. In the early twentieth century keeping chickens was often a money-making enterprise that anyone with a small amount of land could undertake. However, it is clear from Poultry Keeping that taking care to look after chickens and other poultry properly was vital, whether for profit or pleasure.Although this Vintage Words of Wisdom title is often amusing and quaint, the advice given is provided by acknowledged experts and it stands the test of time. There are wise words here on keeping chickens clean, well-fed and healthy, with regular reminders that chickens need space and time to scratch and forage for food themselves in order to stay well and productive. This is in a time before battery hens were crowded into tiny cages with no room to stretch their wings or have a dust bath. The authors provide advice on building a chicken coop, detailed menus for feeding chickens through the year and a chapter on the various diseases and ailments of poultry. The authors also provide guidance on the breeds of chickens to buy for different purposes - egg-laying, chickens for eating, showing, etc. - breeding and care of chicks, showing chickens (which was very popular in 1918), the business side of poultry-keeping, as well as advice on keeping other poultry such as ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowl (though the authors do not recommend keeping ostriches!).The illustrations are charming as well as informative, the text is engaging and describes a world in 1918 that is sometimes familiar and at other times very different. From Orpingtons to silkies, Poultry Keeping offers timeless wisdom on raising chickens from egg to adult bird. We heartily recommend this book as an enjoyable and nostalgic read for anyone who has chickens, or who is thinking of keeping chickens as a hobby or as a backyard business.

Small-scale Poultry Production

Small-scale Poultry Production
Author: Emmanuel Babafunso Sonaiya
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789251050828

This technical guide seeks to promote sustainable small-scale, family-based poultry production, by reviewing all aspects of small-scale poultry production in developing countries. It includes sections on feeding and nutrition, housing, general husbandry and flocks health, regional differences in health practices.

Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps

Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps
Author: Alan Thompson
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2011-11-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1447493427

“Keeping Poultry And Rabbits On Scraps” is an extensively illustrated guide to keeping rabbits and chickens, with a special focus on doing so as cheaply as possible. The first half of the book explains how the maximum number of eggs can be obtained from the minimum amount of imported food, while the second half aims to give practical instructions and tips. This book will appeal to those with an interest in low-cost poultry keeping. Contents include: “Poultry Farming”, “Cuniculture (Rabbit Farming)”, “Eggs From Scraps”, and “Keeping Rabbits on Scraps”. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on poultry farming.

A Chicken in Every Yard

A Chicken in Every Yard
Author: Robert Litt
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1580085822

Got a little space and a hankering for fresh eggs? Robert and Hannah Litt have dispensed advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers from behind their perch at Portland’s Urban Farm Store, and now they’re ready to help you go local and sustainable with your own backyard birds. In this handy guide to breeds, feed, coops, and care, the Litts take you under their experienced wings and share the secrets to: Picking the breeds that are right for you • Building a sturdy coop in one weekend for $100 • Raising happy and hearty chicks • Feeding your flock for optimal health and egg nutrition • Preventing and treating common chicken diseases • Planning ahead for family, neighborhood, and legal considerations • Whipping up tasty egg recipes from flan to frittata With everything that first-timers will need to get started—along with expert tips for more seasoned keepers—this colorful, nuts-and-bolts manual proves that keeping chickens is all it’s cracked up to be.