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Teaching Chickens To Perch, R H. Morris
Teaching Chickens To Perch, R H. Morris
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3
The important managerial practices in the successful raising of healthy birds. Each year, many good chickens have their growth seriously retarded and in some cases are even trampled to death, by being permitted to remain on the floor until they are 10 or 12 weeks of age. Through faulty husbandry, some chickens, especially heavy breeds, never learn to perch and, as laying hens, camp on the ground in preference to perching
Hints On Chicken Rearing, R H. Morris
Hints On Chicken Rearing, R H. Morris
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3
The ultimate profit to be made from poultry farming depends largely on how successfully each year's chickens are reared. A bird can be made or marred during its growing life and many aspects must be considered in rearing chickens successfully, some of the more important of which I will treat very briefly today.