This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...if small rooms are used, the hens are not easily made to take exercise, without which they will not thrive, especially if they sit a double term. Another objection to separate rooms is, that if feed is placed so that the hen can leave her nest to eat at pleasure, rats are baited to the spot, or if each room is made rat ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...if small rooms are used, the hens are not easily made to take exercise, without which they will not thrive, especially if they sit a double term. Another objection to separate rooms is, that if feed is placed so that the hen can leave her nest to eat at pleasure, rats are baited to the spot, or if each room is made rat-proof, it will be too expensive. To feed and water individual birds in separate apartments takes much time, and if severalare placed in one room, they must be looked to, or two will take to the same nest. But if surveillance is attempted, it will be handier to carry it out by placing many in a large room. The nests are guarded against the depredations of rats by the fine wire netting as already described. The use of the coarse netting that alternates with the fine, is as follows: Half the labor of managing chickens is saved, by confining in the same coop two hens with their broods. They will agree perfectly, if well acquainted beforehand. We take a hint from nature here; such wild birds as live chiefly on the ground, sometimes incubate and lead their broods in company. While sitting, adjoining hens form a particular acquaintance through the coarse meshes of the netting, and at the same time they can not interfere with each other, or roll the eggs from one nest to another. Without a special system of management, a considerable number of sitting hens can not incubate and feed in the same apartment without confusion, but by the following plan each is made to know her own nest and return to it after feeding. In the first place, the laying hens, before offering to sit, are induced to choose nests scattered evenly through the whole building, by properly distributing nest eggs and keeping half of the nests closed. The nests on both sides of the hous...
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Add this copy of An Egg Farm. The management of poultry in large numbers to cart. $27.00, fair condition, Sold by Green Mountain Botanical Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Norwich, VT, UNITED STATES, published 1876 by Orange Judd.
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Fair. No dust jacket. Good condition throughout marred only the use several times in early pages of an owner's stamp in purple ink, about 12-pt. type rubber stamp used injudiciously on end pages, title page, preface and introduction pages, etc. and... 95 + 1 advt. p. A series of articles originally published in the American Agriculturalist in 1871-72, about the production of eggs on a large scale farm. Publisher's forest green cloth boards with gilt decoration of egg on front cover, gilt on spine also medium bright, a few faint stains & light rubbing and some bumping of corners and crimping of spine ends, one or two marginal penciling on interior pages, but otherwise tightly bound and only lightly yellowed pages. This volume would show off its companions, also offered here, of a series of similar small 8vo volumes from the same publisher in the same era--an unusual and carefully assembled collection that can't be matched elsewhere, now reluctantly offered in pieces book by book.
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Add this copy of An Egg Farm: the Management of Poultry in Large Numbers to cart. $82.00, good condition, Sold by LINCBOOK rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Foster, RI, UNITED STATES, published 1886 by O. Judd Company.
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O. Judd Company, New York, 1886. Good., Hardcover, Small octavo, 102. Not a reprint. Original dark red cloth with gilt egg and raised bands on front, gilt title and bands on spine. Light tanning. Several small spots on cover. B&w illustrations. Bump to bottom corner of front cover. Four-page list of publications at rear. Packed and shipped with care.
