domestic fowl and ornamental poultry-1852

domestic fowl and ornamental poultry-1852

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Name: domestic fowl and ornamental poultry-1852
Format: pdf
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Book:

Title: Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry;
Author: Richardson, H. D. [from old catalog]
Language: polski
Year: 2012
Subjects: Science & Technology, Nature, Agricultural Sciences, Birds, Agriculture – General & Miscellaneous, Animal Husbandry, Birds – General, Birds – Other
Publisher: VolumesOfValue
ISBN: 9788377682104
Total pages: 108

Description:

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.

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