National Agricultural Library

Poultry Keeping: For Pleasure and Profit

Chapman and Hall, Ld. London

CHAPTER I.
Ancient domesticated Poultry — Ruffs and Reeves — Poultry in the Nine-acre Field — Egg Importations — Poultry- keeping in Towns and Suburban Residences — Hens eating their Eggs — Laying at the best Season — Construction of the Fowl-house — Perches — White-washing — Sheds — Dust-heaps — Height and Size of Houses — Runs — Pining Fowls

CHAPTER II.

Choice of Stock — Spanish Fowls — Minorca — Andalusian — Dorking — The Cochin China — The Malay — Brahma - Pootra — Game Fowls — Hamburg Fowls — Silver-pencilled Hankburgs — Golden-pencilled Hamburgs — Silver-spangled Hamburgs — Golden-spangled Hamburgs — Black Hamburgs — Fowls which are good Sitters — Fowls that exhibit a Disinclination to Sit — Polish Fowls — White-crested Black Polands — Golden-spangled Polands — Silver-spangled Polands

CHAPTER III.

Ihe Sultan Fowl— The Lark-crested Fowl— French Fowls — The Creve-coeur — La Fleche — La Bresse — The Gueldres — English and French Land Laws — Bantam Fowls — The Booted Bantam — The Sebright Game Bantam — Black Bantams — White Bantams — Pekin, or Cochin Bantams — Japanese Bantams — American Fowls — Plymouth Rocks — Leghorns — Dominiques — Rumpless Fowl — Frizzled Fowls — The Silky Fowl — Japanese Silk Bantams — The Silky Cochin, or Emu — The Russian Fowl — Varna and Cossack Fowls — Japanese White Fowls — The Rangoon — Dumpies, or Bakies

CHAPTER IV.

Feeding Poultry — Wheat — Indian Mullet — Buckwheat — Rice — Malt-dust — Peas and Beans as Food — Cooked Vegetables — Greaves — Meat Diet — Milk Curds — Water — Cabbage Plantation — Breeding — Setting a Hen — Artificial Mothers — Rats in Poultry-houses

CHAPTER V.

Diseases of Fowls— Recipe for Vermin in Poultry — The Gapes — Inflammation of the Lungs — Diarrhcea — Apoplexy — Pip, or Thrush — Dysentery — Crop-bound Fowds — Roup — Croup — Diseases of the Egg Organs — Inflammation of the Rump-gland — Rheumatism — Leg Weakness — Inflammation of the Feet — Cramp in young Chickens — Bumblefoot — Elephantiasis — Consumption — Catarrh — Skin Diseases

CHAPTER VL.

The Turkey — Derivation of Name — Tusser — Audubon — Frank Forrester — The Crested Turkey — Variety of Breeds — Management-— Pugnacity of the Turkey — Choice of Turkeys for Breeding— The Bronzed Turkey

CHAPTER VII.

Ducks — The Tame Duck — White Aylesbury — Warwick Blues — The Black East Indian Duck — Rouen Ducks — The Hook-billed — Indian Runners — Commencement of Duck-keeping — Duck-breeding


CHAPTER VIII.

The Goose — Pennant — The China Goose — Pea-fowl — The Swan — Guinea-fowl

Ablett, William Editor