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The Dollar Hen: Raising and Breeding Laying Hens
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ISBN10: 1543085806
ISBN13: 9781543085808
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 12 2017
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.44 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781543085808
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 12 2017
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.44 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
This special re-print edition of the Milo Hasting's book The Dollar Hen is a complete guide to raising and breeding laying hens successfully, be it for use at home or for profit. Included are all the considerations needed for the successful management of laying hens for egg production. Written in 1911, this classic text on poultry sheds light on the information that the start-up laying hen owner needs to learn if they wish to have success. Topics include Money in The Poultry Business, Branches of the Poultry Business, The Poultry Producing Community, Location, The Dollar Hen Farm, The Incubation of Eggs, Feeding Hens, Poultry Diseases, Poultry Fattening, Marketing Poultry For Meat, Quality in Eggs, Marketing Eggs, Breeds of Chickens, Practical and Scientific Breeding, Poultry On The Farm, 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.
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