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Resources Tagged: Poultry Production

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  1. Understanding Poultry Meat And Egg Production

    1984-01-01 Since ancient times, chickens, ducks, and geese have served farming communities by gleaning the fields of grain that otherwise would be lost; picking up grain that is dropped by the wayside in threshing, drying, and transportation; making productive use of the scraps from the family table; and,...
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  2. Raising Chickens And Ducks

    1990-01-01 Because chickens and ducks can utilize surplus grain, table scraps, garden trimmings, and by-products, they can provide a valuable food reserve. Some farming communities produce more grain than their people need. Of course the excess could be sold, but if not, it can be fed to poultry. Then, if...
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  3. FAO - Egg Marketing: A Guide for the Production and Sale of Eggs

    This guide provides information and advice to those concerned with the production and sale of eggs in developing countries with an emphasis on marketing, i.e. producing in order to meet market demand. Market-led egg production enables long-term business survival, higher profits and a better...
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  4. Readings in Small-Scale Poultry Production: Third-World Farmer Manuals

    Contains information on raising poultry in English and Spanish.
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  5. Poultry for Profit and Pleasure

    Poultry are the most benign of farm stock; easy to manage, resilient and relatively productive under the most varied conditions. Anyone with a small patch of land can keep poultry for their eggs and meat, and for breeding. There are few greater pleasures than keeping a flock of hens and feeding...
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  6. Practical Poultry Raising

    This manual is designed to provide development workers with the information and tools needed either to begin or to improve poultry production. For those who are inexperienced in poultry production, this manual can identify and provide the basic information needed to raise and market poultry...
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  7. Sustainable Polycultural Project with Poultry

    Through sustained agricultural food production using ducks, fish, and crops this experiment sets out to be a means to love the poor. A system was built where ducks, fish, and crops could feed off each other's wastes. The plants and ducks grew well but there was not enough oxygen for the fish.
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  8. Legal Issues for Small-Scale Poultry Processors

    2001-01-12 This document contains information on federal and state inspection requirements for on-farm poultry production and processing. 74 pages
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  9. Raising Healthy Poultry

    Key Resource 1998-01-01 W. Malcolm Reid (1910-1990) was Professor Emeritus of Poultry Science (Parasitology) at the University of Georgia. He saw a need for a book dealing with basic poultry production and recruited others to help him develop one. He knew firsthand the value of poultry as a source of food and manure for...
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  10. Successful Brooding of Chicks

    This puplication explains the most effective way to brood you chicks.Successful Brooding of Chicks provides information including when to brood, length od brooding, kinds and number of chicks to brood, systems of brooding, and caring for chicks. 21 pages, illustrated, photos
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