Pheasants Turkeys And Geese Their Management For Pleasure And Profit

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to keeping pheasants, turkeys, and geese. It covers everything from general management to housing, diet, breeding, selection, and even marketing. Profusely illustrated and full of practical information, "Pheasants, Turkeys and Geese: Their Management for Pleasure and Profit" will be of considerable utility to modern farmers, smallholders, and other keepers of poultry. Contents include: "Stock Pheasants for Breeding Purposes", "Pheasants in Enclosed Runs", "Grass for Stock Pheasants", "Feeding Pheasants", "Sitting and Hatching", "Hatching Pheasants under Hens", "Feeding and Management of Young Pheasants", "Diseases", "Coops and Runs for Young Pheasants", "Pheasant Runs", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with its original artwork and text.

This special re-print edition of William Cook's book "Pheasants, Turkeys and Geese: Their Management For Pleasure and Profit " is a treasury of information on the keeping of pheasants, turkeys and geese, either as a hobby or for profit. Written in the early 1890's, this classic text contains nearly 200 pages of practical information about Pheasants, Turkeys and Geese and how to breed and care for them. Chapters include Stock Pheasants For Breeding Purposes, Feeding Pheasants, Sitting and Hatching Pheasants, The Feeding and Management of Young Pheasants, Diseases of Pheasants, Coops and Runs For Young Pheasants, Pheasant Runs, Black Norfolk Turkeys, The White Turkey, Nest Making For Turkeys, Management of Young Turkeys, Rearing Turkeys In Town, The Cambridge Bronze or American Mammoth Turkeys, Feeding Stock Turkeys, Grit For Turkeys, Toulouse Geese, Italian Geese, Chinese Geese, Emden Geese, Crossing Geese, Grit For Geese 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.