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Gamebirds:
Upland Gamebirds
Quail:
Chinese Painted Quail- Button Quail
Waterfowl:
Swan Breeding & Management
Waterfowl Care, Breeding & Conservation
The Duck Handbook
A Guide to Pheasants & Waterfowl
Pheasant:
A Guide to Pheasants & Waterfowl
Peafowl Breeding
Incubation & Care:
Complete Pet Bird Owners Handbook
Captive Birds in Health & Disease
A Guide to Better Hatching
The New Incubation Book
Sexing All Fowl
Other
Pet Chickens
Keep Chickens
Bantams
Doves
Pigeons

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Gamebirds:
Raising Gamebirds
Pheasants
Hunting Upland Gamebirds
Quail:
California Quail
Bobwhite Quail
On Bobwhite
Pigeons, Doves & Quail
The Quail, Partridge & Francolins of the World
Waterfowl:
Raising the Home Duck Flock
Turkey:
Raising Your Own Turkey
Poultry:
The Merck Veterinary Manual
The Chicken Health Handbook
A Guide to Raising Chickens

cover The Chick Health Handbook
by Gail Damerow, Amanda Harr



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From Booklist , April 1, 1994
The editor of Rural Heritage has written a first-rate guide for the small producer interested in healthful meat and eggs as well as the exotic breed fancier raising birds for show. Having published a number of general guides to backyard poultry, including one for children, Damerow here concentrates on everything that can go wrong: diseases; problems associated with keeping birds in close quarters or caging them; litter; cannibalism; vitamin deficiency, resulting in poor molting; incubators that are too hot or too cold; predators; and the invasions of rats. She stresses that the best preventative measures involve protecting one's flock against outside influences (such as wild birds or other chickens), careful culling, and balanced nutrition. Damerow is a good writer, carefully walking the line between insulting the reader's intelligence, a flaw with many books of this sort, and giving more technical information than growers need. Her discussion of how one keeps straight which chick came from which mating--which involves the injection of food dyes into fertilized eggs, and carefully marking the webbings of feet--is downright ingenious. Flawless. John Mort

 
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