Business Hen: Raising and Breeding Laying Hens

This special re-print edition of the Herbert Collingwood's book "The Business Hen" is a guide to raising and breeding laying hens successfully, be it for use at home or for profit. Included are all the considerations needed for the successful management of laying hens for egg production. Written in 1904, this classic text on poultry sheds light on the information that the start-up laying hen owner needs to learn if they wish to have success. Topics include The Breeds, The Scrub Hen Turned To Business, Parents of the Egg, What is an Egg?, Hatching the Egg, Care of Baby Chicks, The Young Birds, The Hen's House, Feeding Laying Hens, The Colony Plan, The Boy's Hens - An Example, Marketing Eggs, The Health of the Hen, Purebred Poultry, Who Should Keep Hens? and much more. Lavishly illustrated with rare period photographs. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.