Chicken Nurses: The Artificial Incubation And Brooding Of Chicks

This special re-print edition of Charles Cleveland's book "Chicken Nurses" is a complete guide to raising chicks, ducklings, goslings, poults and other young poultry through the use of incubators and brooders. Written in 1920, this book includes not only the basics about using incubators and brooders, but also a treasury of practical advice on many aspects of raising chicks. Chapters include First Lessons in Brooding and Feeding, Feeding and Growing Chicks, Transfering to Colony Houses, What We Mean by 'Nurses', The True Poultry Fancier, Selecting and Mating Poultry Flocks, Double Mating, Line Breeding a Necessity and more. Illustrated with vintage photos off many poultry breeds. 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.

Author: Charles Cleveland, Jackson Chambers

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Nov 03, 2016

Number of Pages: 164 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1539907074

ISBN-13: 9781539907077