How to Make a Living from Eggs and Poultry

This special re-print edition of Herbert W. Brown's book "A Living From Eggs and Poultry" is a guide to managing flocks of laying hens, as well as meat chickens for a profit. Written in 1916, this classic text on poultry contains a treasury of knowledge on keeping and raising chickens for home egg production or meat and for profit. Topics include Locations for Poultry Houses, Poultry House Designs, Breeding and Hatching Eggs, Incubation, Setting Hens, Feeding Chickens, Raising Broilers, Watering Poultry, Marketing Broilers, The Costs of Egg Production, Breed Characteristics, How To Grow Your Own Poultry Feed, Common Poultry Diseases and much more. An enlightening and informative read written by a world reknowned expert that will benefit not only the beginner, but also the expert poultry keeper. 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.