Poultry Book : The Breeding and Management of Profitable and Ornamental Poult...

by W. B. Tegetmeier

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Poultry Book : The Breeding and Management of Profitable and Ornamental Poultry, Paperback by Tegetmeier, W. B.; Chambers, Jackson, ISBN 1537586076, ISBN-13 9781537586076, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Written in 1867, this classic reprinting of . Tegetmeier's famous work “The Poultry Book”, contains nearly 400 pages of information on chickens, bantams, ducks, geese, turkeys, peafowl and other types of poultry and long considered one of the most authorativs on the subject of utilitarian and ornamental poultry. Chapters include The Poultry House and Yard, Feeding and Comparitive Value of Food, The Sitting Hen, Structure and Development of the Egg, The Management of Chickens, Cochins, Brahmas, Malays, The Dorking Fowl, The Spanish Fowl, Game Fowl, Hamburghs, Polish Fowl, The Sultan Fowl, French Breeds, The Silk Fowl, The Frizzled Fowl, Rumpless Fowl, Dumpies, Redcaps, Barndoor Fowls, Domestic Fowls of India, Bantams, The Jungle Fowls, The Turkey, The Pea-Hen, The Guinea Fowl, Ducks, Geese and more. Also included is an Appendix with the original standards of perfection for many poultry breed. Lavishly illustrated with thee original rare colored plates and black and white engravings that graced the original : This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

• Publisher: CreateSpace
• Year: 2016
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781537586076
• Condition: Fine

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