The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74
Poultry and Eggs for Market and Export
Contents
- Poultry and Eggs for Market and Export
- Domestic Fowls. — The Birds to Keep
- Fancy Birds
- Improving Fancy Birds
- Improving a Strain
- Breeding Cross-breds p. 6
- Breeds
- The Non-sitting Breeds
- The Sitting Breeds
- Crosses for laying only p. 7
- Crosses for laying and for Table
- Crosses for the Table
- Houses
- Movable Coops p. 8
- Runs
- Fowls in Confinement p. 9
- How to feed Fowls
- Food for Fowls
- Management when at Liberty on a Farm p. 10
- Profits of Poultry-keeping
- Large Egg-farms p. 11
- The Breeding-birds
- Setting and Hatching
- Testing Eggs p. 14
- Hatching by Incubator p. 15
- Rearing
- Fattening p. 16
- Coop-fattening
- Caponizing
- Diseases of Poultry
- Ducks p. 18
- Houses for Ducks p. 19
- Ducklings
- Geese
- Goslings
- Turkeys
- Hatching and rearing Turkeys p. 20
- The Class of Birds for Export
- Time to Ship
- Prices obtainable in London p. 21
- Killing and Preparing
- Freezing and Packing
- Shipping Eggs p. 22