Town Lot Poultry Keeping New Types Of Houses Appliances Brooders Curing Of Diseases Formulaes For Feeding And A New Chart For Line Breeding PDF Download

Excerpt from Town Lot Poultry Keeping: New Types of Houses, Appliances, Brooders, Curing of Diseases, Formulaes for Feeding, and a New Chart for Line Breeding The opportunities for making money by keeping poultry on a town lot, are many and the enjoyment derived from scientific poultry keeping will more than repay one for the labor spent. In putting this little book before the public, it is the author's aim to give his readers a practical and concise treatise on the keeping of poultry on a limited space of ground. The profits from a small plant will depend upon the care of the stock and the cost of production. It is not wise to keep any but standard bred poultry and only the best specimens of the breed you select. The cost of feeding the fowls will depend upon the current prices of grain. I have found that it requires about one hundred pounds of grain food per year besides green foods, etc. to keep a fowl in satisfactory condition. At the prices now charged for mixed grain, one hundred pounds of feed will cost about two dollars. Home prepared foods, after the formulas given in this book will cost 25 to 50 per cent. less. But even with the high grain prices current, one may expect to make a profit of at least three dollars per hen. Because of the limited space, a back yard plant should make a specialty of breeding-stock; permitting the poultry farmer with a larger area to specialize in the production of eggs for commercial use. It is possible, however, for a town lot breeder to incubate and raise to three months of age, several hundred chicks, disposing of them at that age to some one having more space, to mature. Such great birds as the Cochins and Brahmas are attractive fowls and, although there is a limited demand for such large breeds, their eggs will easily fetch three to five dollars a setting. The Leghorns are the money makers for the commercial plant, as they are easy keepers and will pay, if their eggs are even sold as low as fifty cents a setting. It has been said, and this we believe to be a fact, that these fowls will produce fifteen per cent. more eggs on fifteen per cent. less food than the heavy breeds. For fancy breeding, one fowl is as good as another as each has its following and it frequently happens that the poorest laying hen will bring the highest prices as a show bird. The Leghorn family are practically non-setters, while the heavy breeds - Rocks, Wyandottes, Cochins, Brahmas, Reds, etc. - are particularly successful in this branch of the industry, often going broody two or three times a season. During these periods, they lay no eggs. Figure 1 shows a simple hanging coop for breaking a hen of setting. A heavy breed that are non-setters are the White and Black Minorcas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.