Books for Raising Poultry & Waterfowl for Profit

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This page is the catalog page for Raising Poultry and Waterfowl, number 5 above, and lists essential books for chicken farming and raising birds for profit.
Includes practical guides are for maintaining healthy birds and producing higher yields, raising chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and grouse.
These books are of particular interest to small farmers, backyard poultry raisers, as well as anyone else with an interest in raising healthy poultry and waterfowl.

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Welcome to one of our bookstore catalog pages for essential books for gardening, operating small farms, and for learning basic country skills.
Our research staff at Lübecks Bookstore is building an extensive selection of books dealing raising chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other poultry.

Books on Raising Birds for Food, Fun, and Profit

• Chickens in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Rick Luttmann, Gail Luttmann / Paperback 431 pages / Published September 1995
This is an excellent comprehensive, clearly written and non technical guide covering all the basics of raising chickens on a small scale for eggs, meat and for show. Covers choosing breeds, proper housing, nutrition and feeding, incubating and hatching your own chicks, raising chicks, bringing up chicks, butchering, raising chickens for show. Many other poultry books read like instruction manuals, but this book is written with humor and sensitivity.
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• ABC of Poultry Raising: A Complete Guide for the Beginner or Expert ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-J.H. Florea / Paperback 142 pages, 2nd Edition / Published December 1977
This excellent book covers the basics on raising chickens, providing meat and eggs that require a small amount of space, food and time.
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• The Chicken Book ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Page Smith, Charles Daniel / Paperback 392 pages / Published April 2000
This beautifully written book covers small-scale poultry management, veterinary medicine, cultural anthropology, blood-sport historiography and culinary arts. Long out of print and hard to find, this new edition is a winner. Whether or not you have a specific interest in chickens, this is well worth reading. Covers every facet of the chicken from cultural, historical, religious, biological, agricultural and even epistemological points of view.
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• Extraordinary Chickens ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Stephen Green-Armytage, Photographer / Hardcover 112 pages / Published October 2000
This outstanding book presents close-up color portraits of 50 beautiful and unusual breeds of show chickens. Photos are divided into 17 sections including breeds like Frizzles and Silkies; types including game birds and decorative banties; and features that include muffs, fluffy top-knots, bloomers, warty or antler-like combs, and marvelous, clown-red wattle Incredulous crests! Striking split combs! Magnificent beards, muffs, whiskers! Exciting and unusual feather patterns and colors are included in this wonderful collection. You will also enjoy the infusion of interesting information about the assorted breeds. Click excerpts for sizes, shapes and colors, beautiful illuminating feather patterns, elaborate wattles. Breeders and enthusiasts will appreciate the sheer enjoyment of the pictures.
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• Extraordinary Chickens: Chunky Version ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Stephen Green-Armytage, Photographer / Hardcover 360 pages / Published April 2003
This is the compact version of the beautiful book of the world of exotic ornamental chickens first released in Fall 2000. This book presents close-up color portraits of 50 beautiful and unusual breeds of show chickens. Photos are divided into 17 sections including breeds like Frizzles and Silkies; types including game birds and decorative banties; and features that include muffs, fluffy top-knots, bloomers, warty or antler-like combs, and marvelous, clown-red wattle Incredulous crests! Striking split combs! Magnificent beards, muffs, whiskers! Exciting and unusual feather patterns and colors are included in this wonderful collection. You will also enjoy the infusion of interesting information about the assorted breeds. Click excerpts for sizes, shapes and colors, beautiful illuminating feather patterns, elaborate wattles. Breeders and enthusiasts will appreciate the sheer enjoyment of the pictures.
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• Pastured Poultry Profits ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Joel Salatin, et al / Paperback 371 pages / Published July 1996
This guide book will show you a proven way to raise chickens for fun and profit. Whether supplementing your income or making a small business at it, this books explains how to successfully raise chickens.
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• A Guide to Raising Chickens ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Gail Damerow / Paperback 341 pages / Published January 2001
This book is a complete reference that covers all the major areas of raising chickens. Provides information on hatching, breed types, feeding & behavior. Covers the basics of raising chickens in an easy to understand manner.
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• Bantams and Small Poultry ~Usually Ships in 5 to 7 Weeks
- Joseph Batty / Hardcover 224 pages / Published 1996
This book discusses the development and history of bantams. Covers many breeds of bantams with illustrations. Including several color plates.
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• The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds
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-Janet Vorwald Dohner / Paperback 514 pages / Published 2001
This is a comprehensive reference book discusses the history and domestication of livestock and many breeds of poultry. Including chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese with an through examination of each of the breeds. Covers the livestock breeds thoroughly also. An excellent reference for rare breeds because of the large amount of useful information on the breeds covered.
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• Incubation: Practical Incubation
  ~Usually Ships in 4 to 6 Weeks
- Rob Harvey / Paperback 156 pages / Published 1993
This book provides complete practical coverage of all aspects of incubation, from handling the eggs, candling, using thermometers, storing eggs, to caring the chicks when first hatched. Includes a color photographs of a chick embryo at each day of development. This book covers more than poultry, it also covers penguins, hookbills and other birds. Includes illustrations and charts.
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• Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry: Breeds, Care, Health
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-Leonard S. Mercia, Elayne Sears (Illustrator) / Paperback 343 pages / Published 2001
This book covers raising chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, and gamebirds. Contains comprehensive and current information available selecting breeds for meat, brooding and rearing chicks, housing and equipment, home processing of eggs, and meat, maintaining healthy flocks Covers poultry biology, with a whole chapter on the anatomy and physiology of chickens. Discusses caponizing and contains information with illustrations on sexing waterfowl and some instructions on building shelters.
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• The Chicken Health Handbook
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-Gail Damerow, Amanda Haar / Paperback 352 pages / Published June 1994
This book is an excellent comprehensive guide for the back yard and small chicken producer interested in healthy meat and eggs as well as the exotic breed fancier raising birds for show. This guide to backyard poultry, including one for children, Damerow covers everything that can go wrong. Including diseases, preventing cannibalism, vitamin deficiency, proper use of incubators, predator control, problems associated with keeping birds in close quarters or in cages. She stresses that the best preventative measures involve protecting one's flock against outside influences, careful culling, and balanced nutrition. giving more technical information than growers need.
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• Practical Poultry Keeping
  ~Usually Ships in 2 to 3 Weeks
-David Bland / Hardcover 159 pages / Published 1996
This book provides compete coverage on keeping chickens, with chapters on breeds, housing, equipment, breeding and reproduction, natural and artificial incubation and more. Includes illustrations of poultry houses and poultry-house equipment.
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• Barns, Sheds & Outbuildings: Placement, Design and Construction
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- Byron D. Halsted, Editor / Paperback 236 pages / Published January 1995
This reprint from yesteryear has plans for various types of farm buildings that rural householders and farmers will find useful today. Barns, poultry houses, piggeries, corn cribs, ice houses, spring houses, granaries, smoke houses, root cellars and even kennels and birdhouses are included in this fascinating book. Including quite a few plans for poultry houses.
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