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The Mating and Breeding of Poultry - Softcover

Lamon, Harry M.; Slocum, Rob R.

 
9781585748143: The Mating and Breeding of Poultry
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1585748145 ISBN 13: 9781585748143
Verlag: The Lyons Press, 2003

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First published in 1920, this informative book describes in detail all of the elements necessary to become a poultry breeder. Poultrymen and -women alike will appreciate the details of how to pick and choose their chickens and how to run a larger-scale operation. Whether they are producing exhibition stock or birds with heavy egg-producing ability, readers will discover that poultry breeding provides both challenge and interest for the breeder. Breeding also serves as an outlet for artistic expression by allowing the breeder to mold shape and color combination to meet his or her ideal. This informative guide covers an enormous range of topics, including: the principles of breeding, breeding for increased production, classes of poultry, and preparing fowl for show. Complete with numerous line illustrations, this book provides you with all the information and know-how you'll need to become an expert poultry breeder and caregiver.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

HARRY M. LAMON and ROB R. SLOCUM were the Senior Poultrymen at the Bureau of Animal Industry for the US Department of Agriculture.

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A resurgence of chicken farming has swept the nation as people worldwide are becoming more concerned about where their food is coming from. In addition to raising the birds, poultrymen and women can produce specific characteristics in their flocks. This is the only book - first published in 1920 and now back in print - to outline in detail all the necessities to becoming an accomplished breeder. Whether one is breeding for beauty, as in exhibition stock, or for productivity, as in food, this book will teach how to: pick and choose chickens for specific circumstances; manipulate shape and color combinations; prepare birds for weather; develop certain psychological characteristics; encourage the juiciest meat and largest eggs.
In addition, readers will get a crash course in: the principles of breeding; classes of poultry; how to run a larger-scale operation.
Illustrated throughout with numerous line drawings and easy-to-follow instructions, this book teaches everything one needs to know to raise just the right chickens for them.

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Verlag
The Lyons Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1585748145
ISBN 13 
9781585748143
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
340
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