GENERAL FAUNA –

This VINTAGE volume contains a practical guide to feeding poultry. Both the scientific and practical facts relating to poultry feeding are presented in this book, and it is intended for the use and edification of poultry students, practical poultrymen, feed dealers, and all other persons interested in poultry feeding. Despite this being a vintage text, much of the information contained herein is timeless, and will be of considerable value to modern readers with an interest in the subject. The chapters of this book include: ‘The Feeding Problem’; ‘Objects and Principles in Feeding Poultry’; ‘Composition of Plants, Animals, and Rations’; ‘Measuring the Value of Feeds’; ‘Poultry Feeds – Cereals, Seeds and other Mash Constituents’; ‘Poultry Feeds – Animal Protein Supplements’; etcetera.

FEEDING POULTRY is required reading for anyone interested in giving their flocks a better diet. First published in 1946, this book is modern enough that no important point is overlooked, yet old enough that free range, green feed, home-grown grains, and small flocks are given due attention. Written by pioneering poultry scientist G. F. Heuser of Cornell University, the book is aimed at practical poultrymen in addition to poultry scientists, and this makes it more accessible than more recent works.

Are you still wasting money on the wrong kinds of poultry feed? Your poultry depend on you to make sound decisions about their health, but the feed industry and poultry nutrition are mysterious subjects. Let Feeding Poultry be your guide!

Pioneering poultry scientist G. F. Heuser of Cornell University wrote Feeding Poultry at just the right time: after poultry nutrition was thoroughly understood, but before small farm flocks were replaced by factory farms. It may not be the newest book available, but it’s the only one with a whole chapter devoted to free range and green feed, that’s focused on traditional poultrykeeping, and written for the intelligent layman rather than graduate students.

Feeding Poultry is the ideal reference for small farmers and serious hobbyists like you, covering chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, gamebirds, and pigeons.

As you read this book, you will see opportunities open up before you. You’ll learn the uses and quality standards of different ingredients, the value of free range and green feed, how poultry rations are formulated, how to use natural sources for all nutrients, the many different feeding strategies, and much more.

Other books on poultry nutrition cost twice as much for far less material. Even if you never mix your own ration, your superior understanding will give you more options, make you a better shopper, save you money, and allow you to keep healthier, more productive poultry.

You Will Learn:

• How to mix your own feed rations.
• The value and limitations of range as a source of nutrition.
• The use of whole grains.
• The use of farm surplus, table scraps, and other feed that would otherwise
  go to waste.
• What nutrients different breeds of poultry need at different ages.
• Getting vitamins and minerals from natural feedstuffs rather than supplements and premixes.
• Where feed ingredients come from, the different quality grades, and how
  they are manufactured.
• Where to get the necessary nutrients in a cost-effective way.
• How to spot nutritional problems.
• Where to go for more reading. Each chapter has a comprehensive bibliography.

pp. viii, 632 First published 1946 Second Revised Edition 1955

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