Author: Jay Brownlee Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Farm Poultry Houses
Author: Jay Brownlee Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Pastured Poultry Profits
Author: Joel Salatin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963810908
Category : Chicken industry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A proven production model is described, which is capable of producing an income from a small acreage of equal or superior to that of off-farm jobs.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963810908
Category : Chicken industry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A proven production model is described, which is capable of producing an income from a small acreage of equal or superior to that of off-farm jobs.
Farm Poultry Houses
Author: Jay Brownlee Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chickens
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chickens
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
Author: Kelly Anne Jones
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 038575552X
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 038575552X
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
A Farm Poultry House
Author: H. M. Lackie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poultry
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poultry
Languages : en
Pages : 11
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Farm Poultry House Construction
Author: Henry Laverne Kempster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Poultry Item
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poultry
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poultry
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Fresh-Air Poultry Houses
Author: Prince T Woods, M.D.
Publisher: Norton Creek Press
ISBN: 097217706X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Open-Front Chicken Coops Are Healthier, Summer and Winter To stay healthy, your chickens need plenty of ventilation–probably more than they’re getting today. This was discovered over 100 years ago, but has been largely forgotten. Today’s small-flock chicken coops tends to be dank, dark, and smelly. Chickens, like miners’ canaries, are easily harmed by poor air quality. Wet litter breeds disease. Darkness forces chickens, like parrots, to be artificially inactive. “Dank, dark, and smelly” is a deadly combination! Closed chicken houses are so harmful that knocking out a wall can cause an immediate improvement, even in winter (there’s an interesting case study of this in Chapter 2). Chickens, after all, have a thick coat of feathers to keep them warm, but are vulnerable to poor air quality and pathogens in the litter; and their unwillingness to eat in the dark means they can starve in the midst of plenty. An open-front coop during a Canadian winter. Note the snow on the ground. And in summer! Poor air circulation and a thick coat of feathers is hard on the chickens. It can easily kill them. Chickens are far more vulnerable to heat than cold. Fresh-Air Poultry Houses was written by Dr. Prince T. Woods, a noted poultry health expert. Dr. Woods describes not only his own poultry houses, but those of many of his clients, giving the book a breadth of experience that makes it a unique resource. This 1924 book is old-fashioned and a little eccentric, but in a good way. The Fresh-Air Revolution The principles Woods describes in his book achieved total victory at the time. Open-front poultry houses were not only the dominant type, they were the only type for many years (until the industry moved to the use of gigantic fans at the ends of poultry houses to provide even more ventilation than open-front housing!). The principles of open-front housing were taken to extremes in some parts of the country, with surprisingly good results. In California, chicken houses were so open that they didn’t have walls at all! Just a roof. This method was used as far north as Oregon in the Fifties, and worked at least as well as conventional houses. The improved air quality made up for the increased wind chill. While the large producers have consistently embraced the benefits of fresh air, small-flock owners gradually reverted to the kind of under-ventilated chicken coops that was common in the Nineteenth century. The need to keep baby chicks warm trains all of us to be obsess over providing warmth and exclude drafts, and it’s hard to do the opposite when the chicks are older. Even during the heyday of open-front housing, there was a saying that “the best chicks come out of the sorriest houses,” meaning that even experienced farmers couldn’t resist shutting up their houses too tightly, and that only a drafty, dilapidated house could prevent this from doing harm. Things are even worse now, since most people have never even heard of the benefits of fresh air for poultry. We’re proud to be able to bring the Fresh-Air Revolution into the Twenty-First Century.
Publisher: Norton Creek Press
ISBN: 097217706X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Open-Front Chicken Coops Are Healthier, Summer and Winter To stay healthy, your chickens need plenty of ventilation–probably more than they’re getting today. This was discovered over 100 years ago, but has been largely forgotten. Today’s small-flock chicken coops tends to be dank, dark, and smelly. Chickens, like miners’ canaries, are easily harmed by poor air quality. Wet litter breeds disease. Darkness forces chickens, like parrots, to be artificially inactive. “Dank, dark, and smelly” is a deadly combination! Closed chicken houses are so harmful that knocking out a wall can cause an immediate improvement, even in winter (there’s an interesting case study of this in Chapter 2). Chickens, after all, have a thick coat of feathers to keep them warm, but are vulnerable to poor air quality and pathogens in the litter; and their unwillingness to eat in the dark means they can starve in the midst of plenty. An open-front coop during a Canadian winter. Note the snow on the ground. And in summer! Poor air circulation and a thick coat of feathers is hard on the chickens. It can easily kill them. Chickens are far more vulnerable to heat than cold. Fresh-Air Poultry Houses was written by Dr. Prince T. Woods, a noted poultry health expert. Dr. Woods describes not only his own poultry houses, but those of many of his clients, giving the book a breadth of experience that makes it a unique resource. This 1924 book is old-fashioned and a little eccentric, but in a good way. The Fresh-Air Revolution The principles Woods describes in his book achieved total victory at the time. Open-front poultry houses were not only the dominant type, they were the only type for many years (until the industry moved to the use of gigantic fans at the ends of poultry houses to provide even more ventilation than open-front housing!). The principles of open-front housing were taken to extremes in some parts of the country, with surprisingly good results. In California, chicken houses were so open that they didn’t have walls at all! Just a roof. This method was used as far north as Oregon in the Fifties, and worked at least as well as conventional houses. The improved air quality made up for the increased wind chill. While the large producers have consistently embraced the benefits of fresh air, small-flock owners gradually reverted to the kind of under-ventilated chicken coops that was common in the Nineteenth century. The need to keep baby chicks warm trains all of us to be obsess over providing warmth and exclude drafts, and it’s hard to do the opposite when the chicks are older. Even during the heyday of open-front housing, there was a saying that “the best chicks come out of the sorriest houses,” meaning that even experienced farmers couldn’t resist shutting up their houses too tightly, and that only a drafty, dilapidated house could prevent this from doing harm. Things are even worse now, since most people have never even heard of the benefits of fresh air for poultry. We’re proud to be able to bring the Fresh-Air Revolution into the Twenty-First Century.
New Jersey Poultry Houses
Author: Willard Chandler Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poultry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poultry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Housing Farm Poultry
Author: Allen Griffith Philips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description