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Poultry: A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition.Piper, Hugh

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Poultry: A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition.

Name: Poultry: A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition.
Author: Piper, Hugh

Piper, Hugh

Poultry -- Breeding

CHAPTER IV.--FOOD                                                   27

    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
    Vegetables--Insects--Worms--Snails and Slugs--Animal
    Food--Water--Fountains.

  CHAPTER V.--EGGS                                                    40

    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                                        48

    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                           63

    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                        75

    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                                          83

    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.


BREEDS.

  CHAPTER X.--COCHIN-CHINAS, OR SHANGHAES                             93

  CHAPTER XI.--BRAHMA-POOTRAS                                        101

  CHAPTER XII.--MALAYS                                               105

  CHAPTER XIII.--GAME                                                108

  CHAPTER XIV.--DORKINGS                                             112

  CHAPTER XV.--SPANISH                                               115

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