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Poultry are the most benign of farm stock; easy to manage, resilient and relatively productive under the most varied conditions. Anyone with a small patch of land can keep poultry for their eggs and meat, and for breeding. There are few greater pleasures than keeping a flock of hens and feeding...
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This manual is designed to provide development workers with the information and tools needed either to begin or to improve poultry production. For those who are inexperienced in poultry production, this manual can identify and provide the basic information needed to raise and market poultry...
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The new practices, which are described in this booklet, have been tested on the Government farms and poultry centres and proved successful. If they are adopted widely and carried out carefully, the production of poultry products can be increased maniford at a comparatively low cost. The feeding...
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This book covers all the basics in a light and nontechnical guide, from housing and feeding through incubating, bringing up chicks, butchering, and raising chickens for show.
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The purpose of this technote is to help families in the tropics alleviate hunger and poverty by improving small-farm chick production and health.
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It covers what you need to know to raise chickens. It has a section on chicken breeds, as not all chickens are alike. Information on brooding and early care of the young chicks is provided. There is information on henhouse furniture, or what to have in the henhouse for the chickens. Feeding is...
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This Agrodok provides a wealth of useful information on how to overcome the main constraints in small-scale poultry production and deal with threats like predation and infectious diseases. It is a practical booklet with chapters on hatching, housing, nutrition and health. 2 Copies
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1951/01/01 The purpose of this book is to provide a practical working manual and guide for poultrymen keeping layers in indiviual cages in relatively open house.
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2011/10/07 The most comprehensive and definitive guide to date on raising all-natural poultry, for homesteaders or farmers seeking to close their loo.The Small-Scale Poultry Flockoffers a practical and integrative model for working with chickens and other domestic fowls, based entirely on natural systems.
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This Garden Way Classic has been the single most useful reference to countless small flock raisers over the years, and this revised and updated edition answers the questions of a whole new generation of poultry growers. For anyone interested in raising chickens, turkey, ducks, or geese, Raising...