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THE CHICKEN KEEPING

& POULTRY

COLLECTION

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A truly unique and wonderful collection of over 180 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time on one USB flash drive covering all aspects of KEEPING CHICKENS & POULTRY!

This really is a stunning collection of books, covering all aspects of keeping hens and other poultry. Learn how to prepare your land for the hens and how to build and select all manner of chicken coops and runs. Learn all about selecting the right hens for breeding, artificial incubation and the raising of chicks – both for fun and for profit. Learn how to prevent and cure disease among your hens and how to feed for maximum egg production. Learn about successful mating, breeding, rearing, keeping, feeding, taming and exhibiting of ducks, geese and turkeys. Study their natural history, habits, foods and diseases. This is an opportunity for anyone who is interested in keeping chickens and other poultry – from the ‘back-yard’ beginner all the way through to the expert breeder and hen-fancier. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

This superb compilation of 188 vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

This is without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

A complete system of raising turkeys, hens, geese, etc. - W. A. Browning (1873)

A manual on poultry (1883)

A natural history of the ducks Vols. 1- 3 - J. C. Phillips (1922)

A treatise on the history and management of ornamental and domestic poultry (1857)

A turken talk; the origin and value of the new Spencer turken fowl - Z. T. Spencer (1922)

All about Indian runner ducks - O. H. Teasley (1912)

All about poultry (1910)

American duck shooting - G. Grinnel (1901)

Artificial incubating and brooding (1906)

Best methods of feeding little chicks, growing chicks, fowls, turkeys, ducks and geese, for eggs, for market and for exhibition, with formulas for mixing rations - H. A. Nourse (1921)

Biggle poultry book (1895)

Breeding and selection of commercial poultry (1917)

Burnham's new poultry book. A practical work on selecting, housing, and breeding domestic fowls (1877)

Chickens and how to raise them (1909)

Clostridium botulinum type C - a pathogenic anaerobe associated with a limberneck-like disease in chickens and ducks - R. Graham (1923)

Commercial poultry raising (1918)

Distribution and migration of North American ducks, geese, and swans - W. W. Cooke (1906)

Domestic poultry (1866)

Domestic water fowl. Ducks, geese and swans. How to rear and manage them - H. H. Stoddard (1885)

Dressing and packing turkeys for market - T. W. Heitz (1921)

Duck dollars - E. C. Rice (1911)

Duck raising - A. R. Lee (1922)

Duck-keeping on money-making lines; with sections on geese, turkeys and guinea-fowl - W. Powell-Owen (1918)

Ducks and geese - A valuable collection of articles on breeding, rearing, feeding, housing and marketing these profitable fowls - Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company (1900)

Ducks and geese - H. M. Lamon (1922)

Ducks and geese - standard breeds and management - G. E. Howard (1897)

Ducks and how to make them pay - W. Cook (1894)

Ducks, geese and turkeys - E. Brown (1920)

Eleven important wild-duck foods - W. L. McAtee (1915)

Essentials of successful poultry keeping (1912)

Everybodys standard poultry guide (1919)

Farm poultry (1912)

Farm-poultry doctor. Prevention and cure of poultry diseases (1906)

First lessons in poultry keeping (1905)

Five hundred questions and answers on raising poultry (1891)

Five hundred questions and answers! on poultry raising, with a chapter on turkeys, geese & ducks - J. W. Darrow (1899)

From shell to show room (1903)

Fundamentals in poultry breeding - J. H. Robinson (1921)

Goose raising - US Dept. of Agriculture (1922)

Guide to success in poultry keeping, showing how to make poultry pay in summer and winter; with many new and valuable hints and 200 golden rules (1902)

Health in the poultry yard and how to cure sick fowls (1886)

Home-made poultry appliances; what to make and how to make it (1921)

How to feed hens for egg-production (1920)

How to hatch, brood, feed and prevent chicks from dying in the shell (1906)

How to know the ducks, geese and swans of North America, all the species being grouped according to size and color - C. B. Corey (1897)

How to make £50 a year by keeping ducks; also, The breeding and management of the most useful varieties of geese - H. Digby (1897)

How to make poultry keeping pay (1910)

How to raise poultry for profit (1920)

How we make ducks pay. An illustrated guide to the profitable breeding of our modern Pekin all-white mammoth ducklings (1906)

Illustrated reliable poultry manual (1894)

Investigations concerning infectious diseases among poultry (1895)

Just plain chicken talk (1922)

Lehman's poultry doctor. A treatise on poultry diseases, written in plain language for the farmer and poultry raiser (1909)

Life histories of North American wild fowl - A. C. Bent (1923)

Margaret Mahaney talks about turkeys - M. Mahaney (1915)

Modern egg farming (1921)

Money in broilers and squabs, together with special chapters on turkey and guinea broilers and green ducklings and geese for market - M. K. Boyer (1904)

Mrs. Basley's poultry book (1908)

Natural and artificial duck culture - J. Rankin (1914)

Natural and artificial Indian runner duck culture - L. D. Yoder (1910)

Origin and history of all breeds of poultry - trustworthy information regarding the origin and history of all recognized varieties of chickens, ducks and geese (1908)

Ornamental and domestic poultry; their history and management (1848)

Our ducks - a history of American ducks, nesting, roosting, feeding, and playing grounds; habits throughout the year - F. H. Yorke (1899)

Pheasants, turkeys and geese their management for pleasure and profit - W. Cooke (1892)

Pleasurable poultry keeping (1893)

Poultry - a practical guide to the choice, breeding, rearing, and management of all descriptions of fowls, turkeys, guinea-fowls, ducks, and geese, for profit and exhibition - H. Piper (1877)

Poultry - their breeding, rearing, diseases, and general management (1853)

Poultry (1922)

Poultry appliances & handicraft (1902)

Poultry breeding and management (1920)

Poultry breeding; a complete guide for keepers of poultry (1912)

Poultry culture - how to raise, manage, mate and judge thoroughbred fowls (1885)

Poultry culture for profit - an illustrated guide to the general management of poultry (1917)

Poultry diseases and their remedies (1922)

Poultry diseases; causes, symptoms and treatment with notes on post-mortem examinations (1919)

Poultry farming, some facts and some conclusions (1905)

Poultry feeding and fattening (1904)

Poultry for profit (1920)

Poultry for profit; a practical manual for beginners, farmers and side-line poultrymen (1915)

Poultry for the farm and home (1921)

Poultry for the table and market versus fancy fowls; with an exposition of the fallacies of poultry farming (1898)

Poultry keeping; an elementary treatise dealing with the successful management of poultry (1915)

Poultry laboratory guide - a manual for the study of practical poultry keeping (1910)

Poultry production (1921)

Poultry secrets revealed (1911)

Poultry; a practical guide to the choice, breeding, rearing and management of all descriptions of fowls, turkeys, guinea-fowls, ducks, and geese, for profit and exhibition (1873)

Poultry-craft - a text-book for poultry keepers what to do, how to do it (1899)

Poultry-fattening - a practical guide to the fattening, killing, shaping, dressing, and marketing of chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys - E. Brown (1910)

Poultry-keeping on farms and small holdings (1904)

Practical poultry culture - W. Hooley (1919)

Practical poultry husbandry (1922)

Practical poultry keeping (1912)

Practical poultry production (1920)

Practical turkey raising. Turkeys for market and turkeys for profit - F. Field (1887)

Preparing poultry for exhibition (1900)

Production of fatal blackhead in turkeys by feeding embryonated eggs of Heterakis papillosa - H. W. Graybill (1920)

Productive poultry husbandry, a complete text dealing with the principles and practices involved in the management of poultry (1919)

Profitable poultry - how to manage fowls, turkeys, ducks & geese in health and disease - W. Vale (1891)

Profitable poultry farming (1905)

Profitable poultry keeping (1895)

Profitable poultry production (1913)

Profits in poultry. Useful and ornamental breeds, and their profitable management (1888)

Profits in poultry keeping solved (1907)

Profits in poultry keeping solved; best authority on poultry raising; save labor, time and expense (1906)

Progressive poultry culture; the keeping of poultry for profit and pleasure (1913)

Raising ducks - W. J. Ash (1921)

Raising ducks, geese, and turkeys - Us. Dept of Agriculture (1917)

Reliable poultry remedies; poultryman's hand-book of tried-and-proved remedies for the common diseases of poultry (1901)

Report of experiments, made at the College Poultry Farm, Theale, Berks. on the rearing and feeding of turkeys (1906)

Runner ducks - E. A. Taylor (1918)

Secrets in fowl breeding (1876)

Secrets of expert exhibitors and easy lessons in judging (1909)

Secrets of success with baby chicks (1921)

Sir William Jardine's illustrations of the duck tribe (1840)

Some results of castration in ducks - H. D. Goodale (1910)

Standard American poultry book; a guide to profitable poultry keeping (1886)

Standard and commercial poultry culture (1885)

Standard perfection poultry book - the recognized standard work on poultry, turkeys, ducks and geese - C. C. Shoemaker (1902)

Studies on hybrid ducks - H. D. Goodale (1911)

Suburban poultry-keeping; a manual for the backyarder and other amateurs (1921)

Success with poultry (1914)

Successful back-yard poultry keeping (1920)

Successful poultry keeping (1907)

Talking turkey - W. A. Billings (1912)

Talks and walks about the poultry yards (1878)

The A B C of poultry - a reference work for amateur, fancier and professional on poultry-keeping (1906)

The American breeds of poultry, their origin, history of their development, the work of constructive breeders and how to mate each of the varieties for best results (1902)

The American poulterer's companion. A practical treatise on the breeding, rearing, and general management of the various species of domestic poultry (1867)

The American standard of perfection, illustrated. A complete description of all recognized varieties of fowls (1910)

The Asiatics; Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans, all varieties, their origin; (1904)

The beginner in poultry (1912)

The business hen (a new brood) (1904)

The business hen (the latest hatch) (1910)

The call of the hen; or, The science of selecting and breeding poultry for egg-production (1922)

The chick book (1905)

The China fowl (1874)

The complete poultry book (1882)

The essentials of poultry raising (1920)

The farmer's wife - or the complete country housewife containing full and ample directions for the breeding and management of turkies, fowls, geese, ducks, pigeons, etc. (1780)

The home poultry book (1918)

The homoeopathic poultry physician (poultry veterinarian) - Fr. Schroter (1880)

The illustrated book of domestic poultry (1892)

The Indian ducks and their allies - E. Baker (1908)

The Indian runner duck book - the only authoritative American book about this marvelous egg machine - C. S. Valentine (1911)

The Kellerstrass way of raising poultry (1910)

The mallard - its breeding, shooting and preserving - E. A. Quarles (1916)

The management of geese and turkeys - P. Proud (1920)

The modern farm hen (1922)

The natural history of the British surface-feeding ducks - J. G. Millais (1902)

The new american poultry book, containing all the different varieties of fowls, with complete instructions (1884)

The new book of poultry, with forty-five plates in colour and black and white (1905)

The people's practical poultry book a work on the breeds, breeding, rearing, and general management of poultry (1871)

The Philo system of progressive poultry keeping (1910)

The Pleasures and profits of our little poultry farm (1879)

The poultry book (1904)

The poultry doctor; including the homeopathic treatment and care of chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks and singing birds, also a materia medica of the chief remedies (1891)

The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor (1909)

The poultry yard - how to furnish and manage it, a treatise for the amateur poultry breeder and farmer on the management of poultry and the merits of the different breeds (1902)

The poultryman's guide. A book containing hundreds of practical ideas and valuable information for the beginner, the farmer, the fancier or the expert (1912)

The poultryman's handbook (1912)

The practical poultry keeper (1917)

The practical poultry keeper; a complete and standard guide to the management of poultry, whether for domestic use, the markets, or exhibition (1876)

The Standard American poultry book, containing all the different varieties of fowls (1899)

The turkey raiser's guide - A. A. Ensminger (1916)

The wild turkey and its hunting - E. A. McIlhenny (1914)

Turkey culture; giving the experience of the most successful turkey raisers in the United States - W. V. Russ (1901)

Turkey fertility - F. W. Lorenz (1959)

Turkey raising - A. S. Weiant (1917)

Turkey raising - H. M. Lamon (1922)

Turkey raising - US. Dept of Agriculture (1921)

Turkey raising in California - N. L. McFarlane (1921)

Turkeys and how to grow them - H. Myrick (1899)

Turkeys, all varieties. Their care and management. Mating, rearing, exhibiting and judging turkeys; explanation of score-card judging, with complete instructions (1909)

Turkeys, ducks, and geese - H. A. Nourse (1909)

Twentieth century poultry buildings and how to build them (1910)

Western poultry book; tells you what to do and how to do it; the chicken business from first to last (1922)

Wickstrum's book on poultry (1910)

Wild ducks, how to rear and shoot them - W. C. Oates (1905)

Wild-fowl - L. Shaw (1905)

Wright's book of poultry (1912)

BONUS - also included in this astonishing collection are 52 issues of ‘American Turkey Journal’, providing a fascinating vintage look at the breeding and showing of prize turkeys.

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in keeping chickens and other poultry – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

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