Poultry Production

As the poultry industry moved to high-density confinement practical scientifically based books for raising modest numbers of chickens became as rare as hen''s teeth. Poultry books began to segment into weighty tomes for PhD''s and light well-meaning works that revive all the 19th-century supersitions that our forefathers worked so hard to debunk.Fortunately we can find what we need by turning back the clock and putting the best books back into print.This book the 9th edition of Poultry Production is from 1961: old enough that smaller flocks free range and do-it-yourself feed and fixtures were still common but new enough be relevant today and grounded in modern science. Leslie Card''s descrption of carefully tested methods allows you to move forward with your own flock. Poultry Production contains graphs tables and other aids to understanding (for example a graph showing how a concrete floor affects the air temperature at floor level warming it by more than 5 F in cold weather and cooling it by more than 15 F in hot weather).This kind of detail means there''s a place for Poultry Production on every chicken owner''s shelf.Leslie E. Card (1883-1968) was Professor of Animal Science at the University of Illinois Urbana.Poultry Production is volume 8 of the Norton Creek Classics series. See http: //nortoncreekpress for these practical best-of-breed poultry books.