Exhibition Poultry Keeping
Exhibition Poultry Keeping
Author(s): David ScrivenerExhibiting pure-bred chickens at officially organised shows is a hobby pursued by thousands of enthusiasts throughout the world.
Exhibition Poultry Keeping provides a detailed, informative and wide-ranging guide to the techniques needed to keep pure-bred poultry successfully.
Considers housing, equipment, nutrition, the management of broody hens, incubation and chick-rearing. Discusses poultry genetics and breeding systems. Examines show-bird training and preparation as well as show-judging. Written by an acknowledged expert with many years of poultry-keeping experience. Contains over 120 photographs, some in full colour, as well as diagrams and drawings.
Availability: In Print
Publication date: April 2005
Binding: Hardback
Illustrations:8 page colour section 75 b&w photos 20 drawings
Dimensions: 246 x 189 mm
Weight: 700 grams
Extent: 152 pages
ISBN: 1 86126 73 9 8
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- A brief history of poultry shows
- Choosing your breeds
- The organization of poultry showing
- Housing and equipment
- Nutrition
- Incubation, broody hens and incubators
- Chick rearing
- Show bird training and preparation
- Judging systems: grading or comparison
- General defects
- Some poultry genetics
- Double mating
- Selection and breeding systems
- Health and disease.
- Appendix: The poultry fancy worldwide
- Bibliography
- Index
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