Publisher's Synopsis
This special re-print edition of Jacob Biggle's book "Biggle Poultry Book: The Management of Farm Poultry" is a complete guide to raising poultry of all types, including chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks, geese and pigeons. Written in 1917, chapters include Introduction to Chickens, The Egg, Hatching The Eggs, Chicks With Hens, Raising Chicks With Brooders, Early Broilers for Meat, Hens For Eggs, The Farmer's Flock, The Village Hennery, Breeds of Chickens, Turkeys and Guinea Fowls, Ducks, Geese, Pigeons, Fattening and Marketing, Diseases and Enemies, New Systems of Poultry Farming and much more. 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.
