Poultry Feeding And Fattening For Meat

This special re-print edition of the US Dept. of Agriculture's book "Fattening Poultry" is a guide to raising chickens and other poultry for meat purposes. Written in 1911 utilizing the best government sources of the day, this classic guide provides insights into the production of broiler and other meat chickens on the backyard or commercial scale. Chapters include The Best Breeds of Poultry For Fattening or Meat Purposes, The Feeding Season, Methods of Fattening Poultry, Milk Fattening, Rations for Meat Chickens, Mixing Feeds, Daily Feeding, Feeding Experiments, Fattening Old Hens, Shrinkage in Dressing, Cleaning Facilities, Record Keeping and more. A valuable resource for those interested in raising meat chickens. 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.

Excerpt from Poultry Feeding and Fattening: Including Preparation for Market, Special Finishing Methods, as Practiced by American and Foreign Experts, Handling Broilers, Capons, Waterfowl, Etc A Modern American Duck Farm; Feeding Brooder Chicks; Broilers Ready for Market; Broiler Raising on a City Lot; A Good Layer; A Poor Layer; Anatomy of a Fowl; Meats and Grains Compared; Dressed Capon; Coops for Fattening; Cramming Fowls in Large Plant; American Poultry Cramming Machine; English Feeding Machine; Canadian Feeding Machine in Operation; Funnel for Cramming; Fattening and Killing Sheds, France; English Fattening Pen; English Fattening Shed; Frame of Fattening Crate; Chickens in Canadian Fattening Crate; Fattening Chickens at Bondville, Quebec; Fattening Crates with Board Shelter; Process of Dressing Poultry; Picking a Carcass; Knife and Where to Cut; Killing Bag and Knife Guide; Beheading Block; Table for Dressing Fowls; Dressed Poultry Well Packed; Fowl Dressed for Family Trade; Canadian Shipping Box; Turkeys Packed and Marked; Duck Picking; Pair of Dressed Ducks; Killing Department of English Duck Farm; English Duck Ranch, General View; Breast and Thigh Development; Shaped Sussex Fowls; Shaped Fowls, French; Shaped Poultry, La Bresse; Shaping Board, French; Shaping Cloths, French; Chickens in Canadian Shaping Boards; Canadian Shaping Trough in Use About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

For anyone interested in raising chickens or other poultry for meat, this book is an essential resource. It provides detailed information on a range of topics, from feeding and housing to disease prevention and marketing strategies. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.

Covering a variety of essential topics relating to commercial poultry nutrition and production—including feeding systems and poultry diets—this complete reference is ideal for professionals in the poultry-feed industries, veterinarians, nutritionists, and farm managers. Detailed and accessible, the guide analyzes commercial poultry production at a worldwide level and outlines the importance it holds for maintaining essential food supplies. With ingredient evaluations and diet formulations, the study's compressive models for feeding programs target a wide range of commercially prominent poultry, including laying hens, broiler chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and game birds, among others.

This book focuses on the animal husbandry and nutrition based on significant evaluations by the authors of the chapters. Many chapters contain general overviews on animal husbandry and nutrition from different countries. Also, the sections created shed light on futuristic overlook with improvements for animal husbandry and feeding sector. Details about rearing and feeding different animal races are also covered herein. It is hoped that this book will serve as a source of knowledge and information on animal husbandry and nutrition sector.