Backyard poultry raising: The chicken-growing, egg-laying, feather-plucking, incubating, caponizing, finger-licking handbook

Here are all the answers - and then some - in a charming, anecdotal, and information guide that talks turkey to anyone interested in learning how to raise chickens and other poultry at home. John Adams instructs fowl motivates in everything they need to know to raise cantankerous feathered creatures for both their eggs and their meat. He explains how to buy chicks and how to build a chicken house; talks about feeds and feeding, the egg and how to get it, diseases ad natural enemies; elaborates on capons, fryers, and broilers, and other poultry such as duck, turkey, and geese; even considers the possibility of producing for profit.