Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guineas, Game Birds - Softcover

Drowns, Glenn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612120008 ISBN 13: 9781612120003

Verlag: Storey, 2012

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This classic guide to chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, and game birds is now fully revised and expanded to inform and support backyard hobbyists and small farmers who want to use natural, humane practices and raise a variety of interesting breeds.

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Glenn Drowns, author of Showing Poultry and Storey’s Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edition, and his wife conserve and promote rare breeds and varieties of turkeys, ducks, geese, and chickens at their Sand Hill Preservation Center in Calamus, Iowa. Drowns, a highly respected poultry judge, has raised standard turkey varieties since 1989, and he received the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy’s Breed Conservation Award in 1999 for his contributions to the identification and survival of rare turkeys.

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A diverse flock of poultry can provide free-range meat, a rainbow of eggs, and endless entertainment---all delivered from the confines of your backyard or small farm. Glenn Drowns, an expert on rare breeds and varieties of turkeys, ducks, geese, chickens, and other birds, delivers everything you need to know to raise healthy, safe poultry.

The revised and updated fourth edition includes:
*Expanded breed coverage, including heritage and rare breeds
*Complete daily care and feeding instructions
*Emphasis on providing birds with room to roam and peck
*Tips on growing your own feed
*Information on less common species---pigeons, doves, emus, ostriches, peafowl, and swans

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Storey
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1612120008
• ISBN 13: 9781612120003
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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