Just an FYI - that book and other good, antique poultry books are available for free on sites like archive.org, Hathitrust, and google books. Various formats so you can download them to a computer, an electronic reader, or print them.
Yeah I'm not too awful interested in chicken heads myself. I'll skip that part for a day when I'm in the waiting room at the doctor's office.
Thanks for the link! That's pretty nifty. Now I can save whole books on my hard drive.
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Thanks! Maybe I will!
Mine (the NN, that is) will even jump into the feed bucket itself. I don't let their feed go empty or anything, they are just piggy about it sometimes.No birds scrambling to get out of my way either....I have to swing my legs to get them out of the way and to keep from tripping!I'd carry a stick if I thought it would do any good. They are most decidedly NOT afraid of me and will jump right up on the scoop when I'm dishing out feed, the big hogs.
Could be the birds just see us as predators, as well they should.
- Ant Farm
What I like best about it (I've only read online, though I'd a love a hard copy someday) is that even though he worked primarily with Leghorns, he lists out the measurements and body types for dual purpose (my goal) and meat birds, so if someone is going for a meat line, they can use the end of the scale he selected against. Someone going for primarily egg laying could use the other end of the scale, while I am going to be looking for birds in the middle. I also like that the pictures are rather good for the time.
