The Poultry Science (Hardcover)

Though the number of persons who keep poultry is increasing and the knowledge of how to manage poultry is being diffused through the poultry press, the demand for eggs and dead fowls increases in still greater degree. The selection, rearing and general treatments in poultry science was felt as the need of hour for farmers. Poultry science has to be studied in all its details, it has been dealt with thoroughly. Trust, this book will be of great help to the poultry farmers, teachers, researchers and students.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Selection of Breeds
Chapter 3: Importation of Eggs
Chapter 4: Accommodation Houses
Chapter 5: Marking Fowls and Eggs
Chapter 6: Management and Feeding
Chapter 7: Breeding Pens
Chapter 8: Setting and Hatching
Chapter 9: Coops, Artificial Mothers, Food and Rearing
Chapter 10: Preparing for Show
Chapter 11: Fattening, Killing and Plucking
Chapter 12: Cooking
Chapter 13: Enemies of the Poultry Yard
Chapter 14: Diseases
Chapter 15: Description of Various Breeds.