Description
This antique text offers a practical course for producing eggs and poultry meat for the family table. The person inexperienced with chickens need have no fear of making a start, provided they have sufficient room, begin with good stock, and give their birds the proper housing, feed, and attention. Offering realistic counsel and practical guidance to novice poultry farmers, this text will be of much interest to amateur poultry farmers, and makes for a worthy addition to collections of poultry farming literature. The chapters of this book include: ‘The Small Poultry Flock’, ‘Breeds and Varieties’, ‘Houses and Equipment’, ‘Starting the Flock’, ‘Summer Management of Young Flock’, ‘What Chickens Eat’, ‘Green Food for Poultry’, ‘Feeding and Care of Laying Birds’, ‘Flock Health’, ‘Identification of Non-Layer’, ‘Meat for the Table’, etcetera. We are proud to be republishing this text here complete with a new introduction on poultry farming. John Taylor, born in 1952, is an American writer, critic, and translator who has lived in France since 1977. His most recent books of poetry and short prose are The Apocalypse Tapestries (Xenos Books), If Night is Falling (Bitter Oleander Press), and The Dark Brightness (Xenos Books). As a translator, he has won grants and prizes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sonia Raiziss Charitable Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets. In 2015, his translation of Jose-Flore Tappy’s poetry (Sheds, Bitter Oleander Press) was a finalist for the National Translation Award of the American Literary Translators Association. His recent translations include books by Philippe Jaccottet, Pierre- Albert Jourdan, Pierre Chappuis, Catherine Colomb, Georges Perros, Alfredo de Palchi, and Lorenzo Calogero. His critical essays on European poetry in general and French literature in particular have been published in five volumes at Transaction Publishers, the latest of which is A Little Tour through European Poetry.
