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Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks
Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl
by Gail Demerow
Pages: 240
Publisher: --
Edition: 1st., 2013
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1612120140
Description
If you want to incubate, hatch, and brood chicks yourself, rather than buying them from a hatchery, this is the guide you need. Poultry authority Gail Damerow explains exactly how to hatch healthy baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets, addressing everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to ensuring proper set-up and sanitary conditions, understanding embryo development, and feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder. This is an indispensable reference for any poultry raiser, whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred.
Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl
by Gail Demerow
Pages: 240
Publisher: --
Edition: 1st., 2013
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1612120140
Description
If you want to incubate, hatch, and brood chicks yourself, rather than buying them from a hatchery, this is the guide you need. Poultry authority Gail Damerow explains exactly how to hatch healthy baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets, addressing everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to ensuring proper set-up and sanitary conditions, understanding embryo development, and feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder. This is an indispensable reference for any poultry raiser, whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred.