This work is intended as a practical guide to those about to commence Poultry keeping, and to provide those who already have experience on the subject with the most trustworthy information compiled from the best authorities of all ages, and the most recent improvements in Poultry Breeding and Management. The Author believes that he has presented his readers with a greater amount of valuable information and practical directions on the various points treated than will be found in most similar works. The book is not the result of the Author’s own experience solely, and he acknowledges the assistance he has received from other authorities. Among those whom he has consulted he desires specially to acknowledge his obligations to Mr. Tegetmeier, whose “Poultry Book” (published by Messrs. Routledge & Sons, London) contains his especial knowledge of the Diseases of Poultry; and to Mr. L. Wright, whose excellent and practical Treatise, entitled “The Practical Poultry Keeper” (published by Messrs. Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London), cannot be too highly commended.
CONTENTS
Illustration: White Dorking Cock. Coloured Dorkings. Duck-winged and Black-breasted Red Game.
PREFACE.
Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. The Fowl-House.
Chapter 3. The Fowl-Yard.
Chapter 4. Food.
Chapter 5. Eggs.
Chapter 6. The Sitting Hen.
Chapter 7. Rearing and Fattening Fowls.
Chapter 8. Stock, Breeding, and Crossing.
Chapter 9. Poultry Shows.
Illustration: Buff and White Cochin-China. Malay Cock. Light and Dark Brahmas.
Chapter 10. Cochin-Chinas, or Shanghaes.
Chapter 11. Brahma-Pootras.
Chapter 12. Malays.
Chapter 13. Game.
Chapter 14. Dorkings.
Illustration: Golden-pencilled and Silver-spangled Hamburgs. Black Spanish
Chapter 15. Spanish.
Chapter 16. Hamburgs.
Illustration: White-crested Black. Golden and Silver-spangled. POLISH.
Chapter 17. Polands.
Chapter 18. Bantams.
Illustration: Black. Sebright’s Gold and Silver-laced. White. Game. BANTAMS.
Chapter 19. French and Various.
[Illustration: Houdans. La Flêche, cock. Crêve-Coeur, hen. FRENCH.
Chapter 20. Turkeys.
Illustration: Turkey and Guinea-fowls.
Chapter 21. Guinea-Fowls.
Chapter 22. Ducks.
Illustration: Toulouse Goose. Rouen and Aylesbury Ducks.
Chapter 23. Geese.
Chapter 24. Diseases.
