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Cc56-136 Poultry Profit Pointers: Health Maintenance, Elvin C. Schulte
Cc56-136 Poultry Profit Pointers: Health Maintenance, Elvin C. Schulte
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
The health of a poutlry flock can mean the difference between profit and loss. At least 15% of all chickens hatched in the United States die from disease before copmleting a laying year.
This campaign circular discusses the means rules for raising a healthy flock. This includes: sanitation, medication, vaccination, controlling lice, mites, and internal parasites, controlling cannibalism by debeaking.
Cc56-132 Poultry Profit Pointers: Range Management, Elvin C. Schulte
Cc56-132 Poultry Profit Pointers: Range Management, Elvin C. Schulte
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This campaign circular discusses range management. The number of birds that can be ranged on an acre will depend upon the type of sod and the fertility of the land. On most land, 250 to 500 pullets can be ranged per acre.
Pullets should be reared on range after geing started in permanent or colony brooder houses. They should be hardened off by letting them run on wire sun porches or gravel yards in front of the brooding houses and then transferred to the shelters on the range.
Cc56-127 Profit Pointers For Poultry: A Management Program For Laying Hens, Elvin C. Schulte
Cc56-127 Profit Pointers For Poultry: A Management Program For Laying Hens, Elvin C. Schulte
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
Building a profitable industry is a joint enterprise of farm producers, feed manufacturers, feed dealers, hatcherymen, educational institutions and allied industries.
This campaign circular discusses the selection, housing, equipment needed, water, feeding, health maintenance, ventilation, litter, lights, culling, record keeping, and marketing for raising poultry.