Herbert Brown

A Living From Eggs and Poultry Herbert Brown

This special re-print edition of Herbert Brown's book "A Living From Eggs and Poultry" is a guide to raising and breeding poultry at home or on a small farm, with special emphasis on doing so for profit. Written in 1916, this classic text on poultry contains the basics of raising and breeding poultry for egg laying or meat purposes. Some of the topics covered include The Poultry Business, Qualifications Necessary For Success, Starting Out, Poultry Houses, Breeding and Hatching, Incubating Eggs, Hatching by Hens, Feeding Chickens of Various Ages, Fattening Broilers, Watering Chickens, Marketing Broilers, Selling Off Old Hens, Characteristics of Different Chicken Breeds, Growing Your Own Chicken Feed, Don't Learned From Experience and more. This is one of the most concise guides on how to get the most from a flock of chickens in your backyard. Lavishly illustrated. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.