{"product_id":"2940013704275","title":"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, Fourth Edition [Illustrated]","description":"This edition features\u003cbr\u003e • illustrations\u003cbr\u003e • a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS \u003cbr\u003eGENERAL MANAGEMENT.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. — Introduction  \u003cbr\u003eNeglect of Poultry-breeding — Profit of Poultry-keeping — Value to the Farmer — Poultry Shows — Cottage Poultry.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II. — The Fowl-House  \u003cbr\u003eSize of the House — Brick and Wood — Cheap Houses — The Roof — Ventilation — Light — Warmth — The Flooring — Perches — Movable Frame — Roosts for Cochin-Chinas and Brahma-Pootras — Nests for laying — Cleanliness — Fowls' Dung — Doors and Entrance-holes — Lime-washing — Fumigating — Raising Chickens under Glass.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III. — The Fowl-Yard  \u003cbr\u003eSoil — Situation — Covered Run — Pulverised Earth for deodorising — Diet for confined Fowls — Height of Wall, \u0026amp;c. — Preventing Fowls from flying — The Dust-heap — Material for Shells — Gravel — The Gizzard — The Grass Run.    \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV. — Food  \u003cbr\u003eTable 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 [vi]Vegetables — Insects — Worms — Snails and Slugs — Animal Food — Water — Fountains.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V. — Eggs  \u003cbr\u003eEggs 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.    \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI. — The Sitting Hen \u003cbr\u003eEvil 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.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII. — Rearing and Fattening Fowls  \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII. — Stock, Breeding, and Crossing  \u003cbr\u003eWell-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.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX. — Poultry Shows  \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121257562352,"sku":"2940013704275","price":3.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013704275_p0.jpg?v=1763584583","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013704275","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}