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POULTRY x CHICKEN x DUCK x FOWL x GOOSE x TURKEY xx BIRD How to hatch eggs from your own hens, some basic rules. Includes incubation chart for eggs of domestic birds. A look at basic disease prevention for chickens. Ordering chickens from the catalog. Tips on selection of a breed to meet your needs. Inexpensive poultry water heater built from a coffee can, ceramic light socket, wiring, and two pieces of 1x12. How to feed laying hens. How to use deep litter (chaff, sawdust, corn cobs, etc.) to reduce odor, flies and labor in the chicken coop. Sixty most-asked poultry questions answered by John Skinner of the University of Wisconsin Extension. All about poultry roundworm and information on prevention. Hatching eggs, both incubator and brood hen methods. Includes information on candling eggs. A look at harvesting a fish pond and the side benefits of keeping pond ducks. The basics of constructing poultry houses and yards. Managing the homestead for success. Part 4. Managing the successful poultry enterprise. A look at expenses. Reminders for successful hatching. Includes a chart of the time required to hatch common eggs. Getting started raising geese. Give confined chickens the same benefits they would get from free range through special pen conditions and a variety of foods. How to build a brooder box for chicks. How to raise meat-type pigeons. How to raise Khaki Campbell egg-laying ducks. Build a chicken coop in eight hours. Est. cost: $70. The natural way to raise chicks. The homestead chicken. How to hatch, feed, house, care for and butcher it. How to price eggs to sell. Tip on mixing your own poultry feed. Raising ducks. The basic do's and dont's. Raising and butchering turkeys. Plans for a solar-heated henhouse (chicken coop). Transform a simple metal storage shed into a great chicken coop. Raising the Christmas goose. Simple record keeping system helps determine the profitability of raising goats, chickens and rabbits. Advice to the new homesteader about raising chickens. Homemade peck repellent recipe. How to remove spurs from mean roosters. A cheap and handy chick feeder made from a plastic flower pot and a pie pan. Tip: Add sugar to poultry drinking water to improve leg strength and other problems. Earth-berm solar chicken coop has five sides, log walls, and is insulated with foam boxes, straw bales and straw mulch. Disinfecting a shed for housing poultry. How to increase the hatchability of eggs in incubators through regular turning and proper position. Tips on making feeders and waterers for chickens. Tip on adding concentrates to home-mixed poultry feed. The Spring hatch. How to incubate eggs and raise the chicks. Tips on making and using incubators and brooders. Helpful hints for operating incubators. Hatching goose eggs without an incubator. Tips on turkey feeding, housing and health care. How to treat leg mites (scaly leg) on chickens. Building a portable henhouse. Two designs shown. Planting oats and sunflower seeds for use as green feed and shade in your chicken yard. Build an automatic watering system for poultry. Building a homemade incubator using a polystyrene box, aluminum foil, 40 watt light bulb, water dish and cardboard box. Securing good hatching eggs through selection of a healthy breeding flock. Tips on hatching eggs. Includes breed selection, incubation and feeding. Tips on raising ducks or geese. How to butcher and pluck geese. How to increase winter egg production through adequate housing, water and light. Tips on making feeders and waterers for your chicken house. How to raise pigeons for meat production. How to hatch quail eggs using an electric frying pan as an incubator. Two easy methods discussed for breeding sex-linked chickens, the barred/non-barred and Silver/Gold mating methods. Midwinter henhouse checklist to make sure your poultry is comfortable, warm, occupied, and producing at their optimum. Coccidiosis can be prevented by avoiding overcrowding, raising birds on wire, feeding anticoccidial medications, and good sanitation. Avoiding botulism-causing bacteria and treatment for poultry that has been infected. Breeding and raising turkeys can be profitable. Getting started raising chickens. A brief look at minimum requirements, returns and practical steps to follow. Homegrown poultry feed. Tips on growing comfrey, kale, mangels and grain sorghum as feed for chickens. Tips on what a poultry judge looks for in both exhibition and market classes. Tips on plucking chickens using a commercial device that fits on an electric drill. Notes on the extra care needed by laying hens during warm weather. Tips on what to look for to distinguish a laying hen from a non-layer. Getting started with homestead chickens. Hatching goose eggs. Some tips. Raising broilers in a limited space. Pros and cons of using a "battery" cage to raise chickens. The original incubator. How to hatch chicks the "natural" way using a brooding hen. Another way to raise broilers without using a "battery" cage. Getting the small flock ready for winter and helping your hens though a fall molt. Advice on helping poultry maintain health and egg production through the winter. How to protect chickens' combs and feet during cold weather. Poultry on a pasture. Advice on the nutritional requirements of chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese and on the crop or combination of crops for poultry pasture. Treatment and prevention of fowl pox. Tip describes how to electrify a dead chicken to repel predators. Cleaning and disinfection of poultry houses. Chickens in the garden for pest control. Two plans for integrating housing for the birds next to garden space. How to make a cardboard chick brooder. Homesteader's handbook to raising small livestock. Part 3. Chickens. Selecting a breed, buying chicks, the henhouse, problems, feed, egg production and butchering Tips on overwintering poultry in Montana. Tip on making a poultry feed hopper from chimney pipe or PVC pipe. Homesteader's handbook to raising small livestock. Part 4. Turkeys and other fowl (geese, ducks, guinea fowl, pigeons). Building the homestead chicken house. SPECIAL SECTION on raising chickens. Includes several coop designs, a simple brooder, food, etc. Raising geese. Some tips. Warm water makes happy chickens. Electrify a standard galvanized poultry fountain using heat tape. Build a sensible chicken coop which is raised above ground level. Make an old-fashioned poultry catcher (hook). An easy way to discourage predators at the henhouse by installing a wire fence "skirt" around the pen. Poultry waterer is made from an old tire and some wood. Tweaking the styrofoam poultry (egg) incubator. Nine ways to increase your hatch. An introduction to chickens. The basics on buying chicks, housing and caring for them. Raising healthy chickens. Some basic information on diseases, predators, lice and mites. Build an incubator with an egg turner. How to hatch eggs in an incubator. Sensible chicken coop (96"x43") includes upper level roost and nest box. Est. cost: $275. Barrel coop for bantam chicks. Directions for converting 55-gallon white plastic barrels. Advice on sanitation and hygiene to prevent problems when raising chickens. How to raise turkeys on pasture. Chick feeder and waterer are made from 1-gallon plastic jugs. A moveable chicken coop to build. Feeding chickens the old-fashioned mash and grain way. Sketch of a chicken tractor (movable chicken house) built from used pallets. How to make a chicken self-feeder from a 4-gallon square plastic bucket and a wooden bottle crate. The golden rules of feeding poultry. Tips on feeding chicks, growing birds, and laying birds. Tips on butchering chickens. Build a neat but simple henhouse that is raised on stilts and features a screened-in ground area of 6x6-ft. This all-in-one unit incorporates handles to facilitate moving the house daily so that chickens are always on clean ground. The homestead chicken. Comprehensive advice on selection, incubation, rearing, housing, feeding, butchering, etc. Cleaning and disinfecting poultry houses in five steps. A different way of butchering chickens uses a garden hose to easily skin the bird. House your quail in style. This wooden coop is fitted with wheels for easy movement. Build a cheap hanging chicken feeder from a plastic jug and plant dish. Old, non-electric brooder design is heated with an oil lamp. How to make a pastry vest, bow tie and spats to dress the Thanksgiving turkey. Suggestions on raising chickens in the backyard or garden. Step-by-step diagrams of how to bone a whole chicken. Beginning in gobbler husbandry. A look at raising turkeys. Breed choices, mash and grit, diseases, breeding and hatching covered. How to kill and dress poultry. How to avoid the pitfalls of inbreeding in a chicken flock. The complete fowl yard. A short treatise in praise of ducks and geese. Includes tips on raising and slaughtering for food. Guinea fowl. Tips on raising this most primitive and practical of domestic poultry. Formulating economical poultry (chicken) feeds which provide sound nutrition. Livestock in winter. How to protect various farm animals from the bad side effects of cold winter weather. Chicken little. A guide to raising Cornish game hens. The incubation and hatching process for poultry. A step-by-step guide to incubator construction. Pheasant farming. How to raise pheasants for restaurants, gourmet shops and wildlife stocking. The pleasures of a backyard chicken flock. Suggestions for a beginner on which birds to select, where to get them, preparation of some accommodations and general maintenance tips. Also describes the butchering process and egg gathering and handling. Small beginnings. Getting started raising quail. Rare old birds. The care and breeding of heritage hens. Description of a system for preserving a poultry breed. Homestead poultry raising. A collection of articles. (1) Fresh eggs from your own hens. (2) Raising tender chicken. (3) Home made brooder. (4) Geese grow on grass. (5) Turkey raising. (6) Duck raising. (7) Squab raising. A poultry-raising mini-manual. Homestead chicken production. Extensive information on housing, feeding, etc. Excerpts from Practical Animal Husbandry (c.1949). Homestead duck and goose production. Excerpts from Practical Animal Husbandry (c.1949). Homestead turkey production. Excerpts from Practical Animal Husbandry (c.1949). Homestead squab and guina fowl production. Excerpts from Practical Animal Husbandry (c.1949). How to sex day-old chicks. A colony cage for backyard poultry farmers. The homestead goose. Tips on starting a flock. A quick and simple outdoor brooder. How to raise baby chicks from scratch. How to build a hanging poultry feeder from a metal or plastic 5-gallon paint or food pail. How to make nests for laying hens from cardboard boxes. How to get a regular supply of free chickens by getting rooster chicks from a hatchery. Tip: How to feed chickens sorghum seeds to get more female birds per hatch. The complete homestead guide to ducks. How to foil a chicken hawk. Ten commandments for raising healthy chickens. Part 1. Ten commandments for raising healthy chickens. Part 2. How to raise Coturnix quail. Tip: Dig a trench in a chicken coop to catch droppings, provide a source of heat and to produce useful compost. Tip: Place a sock over a turkeys head the night before you plan to slaughter it. Build your own incubator for chicken eggs. Motorized unit regularly moves the eggs (just like a real hen would). Est. cost: $60. An introduction to raising guineas. Build an all wood, all-purpose chicken-feeding station. Easy way to pluck (deplume, defeather) both wild and tame birds. Comparing the five best backyard livestock animals (sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, chickens). Build a hanging chicken feeder from a 5-gallon plastic pail and a metal garbage can lid. How to build a chicken run from wood and poultry wire. The no-pluck chicken-cleaning technique. Build an egg candler from a tin can and an electric lamp. How to raise free-range chickens. Build a self-regulating poultry waterer from a 5-gallon plastic bucket. Tips on getting started raising bantam chickens. Chicken moat. A double wall of fencing, patrolled in between by a flock of chickens, keeps weeds, insects, and animals from "invading" your garden area. It also serves as a coop for the chickens. A guide to ducks and geese suitable for small farmsteads. Tip on using plastic terminals (the type used to splice electric wires together) to cover a rooster's spurs. Save the chickens! A look at efforts to perpetuate diversity in the poultry gene pool through home poultry flocks. Advice on selecting a breed, ordering chicks, and raising the birds for eggs or meat. The basics of slaughter and dressing process summarized. Building both fixed and mobile chicken pens that are predator proof and provide shelter, shade and good ventilation. An Oregon poultry-raiser's description of how to grow Speltz as an alternative to high-cost poultry feed. How to get a hen to incubate and hatch a clutch of eggs. How to raise Muscovy ducks for food. Tips on raising geese for pleasure and profit. Includes information on butchering. How to produce your own down from ducks or geese. Tips on littering the floor of a chicken coop with organic refuse to control an odor problem. A look at a combination chicken yard and garden. Area of 50x75-ft. is divided by a fence. Chickens range on one side while garden grows and after harvest they are switched to the other side. Tip: How to keep baby chicks warm at night without electricity by using a hot water bottle in a plastic bag. Tip: Put a tub full of cold wood ashes in a chicken house for use in "bathing". Animals fit for the garden. For fresh food and manure, rabbits and chickens are the best choices for small yards. Tip: Egg and green onion tops help get baby turkeys to start eating. How to use the "deep-litter" system to capture and use chicken droppings in your garden. Also describes the use of a pit in the chicken coop to catch droppings and serve as a compost pile for garbage. Tip: How to bone a chicken. How to raise chickens. A guide to best breeds for the backyard. How to house and care for chickens. Ducks and geese, the ultimate organic livestock. General advice on their care and a description of how to build a nighttime house for them. Combination garden shed and chicken coop is built on 3 levels. Backyard poultry. Tips on starting a henhouse in the backyard. | |||||||||
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