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Beschreibung
Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you'll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.
Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you'll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.
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Gail Damerow
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: The Chicks

1 Acquiring Your First Chicks

2 Setting Up Your Brooder

3 Managing Water, Feed, and Bedding

4 What to Expect as They Grow

5 Hatchling Health Issues

Part 2: The Eggs

6 The Broody Hen

7 Selecting an Incubator

8 Eggs for Hatching

9 Operating an Incubator

10 What Went Wrong?

11 Hatchling Identification

Appendix: Screwpot Notions

Glossary

Acknowledgments

Resources

Index

Interior Photography Credits

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Fachbereich: Landwirtschaft & Gartenbau
Genre: Importe, Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781612120140
ISBN-10: 1612120148
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Damerow, Gail
Hersteller: Storey Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 273 x 214 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Gail Damerow
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.01.2013
Gewicht: 0,788 kg
Artikel-ID: 106483442

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