CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PACK 



I Introductory -----.. 1 



II Location - 8 



III The Colony System 17 



IV Supplying Their Needs 26 



V Houses for Layers 35 



VI Houses for Breeders 51 



VII Houses for Sitters 62 



VIII Houses for Sitters in Mild Climate 74 



IX Management in Mild Climate 92 



X Coops for Chickens 97 



XI Fowls for Layers and Sitters - - 102 



XII The Kinds of Food - 112 



XHI Breeding and Incubation .... us 



XIV Management of Sitters 125 



XV Management of Young Chickens ISO 



XVI Additional Buildings 139 



XV 11 The Intensive System 146 



XVIII The Exerciser 152 



XIX The Tilt Box 158 



XX Outdoor Exerciser 178 



XXI Success with Ducks 186 



XXII Perfecting the Details 190 



XXIII For Soft Feed 206 



XXIV Alternate and Parallel Systems 212 

 XXV Healthy, Vigorous Birds - - - - 235 



XXVI Business Poultry Farming 245 



XXVII Artificial Incubation 261 



XXVIII Requisities of a Good Incubator 266 



XXIX Care of the Eggs 281 



XXX The Incubator Room 298 



XXXI Brooders 304 



XXXII Method of Heating and Ventilating Brooders 312 



XXXIII The Brooder of the Future 322 



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