Pheasants, Turkeys and Geese: Their Management for Pleasure and Profit

By William Cook

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to keeping pheasants, turkeys, and geese. It covers everything from general management to housing, diet, breeding, selection, and even marketing. Profusely illustrated and full of practical information, "Pheasants, Turkeys and Geese: Their Management for Pleasure and Profit" will be of considerable utility to modern farmers, smallholders, and other keepers of poultry. Contents include: "Stock Pheasants for Breeding Purposes", "Pheasants in Enclosed Runs", "Grass for Stock Pheasants", "Feeding Pheasants", "Sitting and Hatching", "Hatching Pheasants under Hens", "Feeding and Management of Young Pheasants", "Diseases", "Coops and Runs for Young Pheasants", "Pheasant Runs", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with its original artwork and text.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Home Farm Books
• Release date: Sep 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781473341456

William Cook

William Cook is the author of Ha Bloody Ha, The Comedy Store and 25 Years of Viz. He edited Tragically I Was An Only Twin – The Complete Peter Cook and Goodbye Again – The Definitive Peter Cook & Dudley Moore. He has worked for the BBC and has written for the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday, the New Statesman and Condé Nast Traveller.

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SECTION I.

CONTENTS.

SECTION I.—PHEASANTS.

STOCK PHEASANTS FOR BREEDING PURPOSES

Pheasants in enclosed runs: how to avoid weakening influences of confinement—Grass for stock Pheasants—Pheasants in their wild state, how they look after their young—White Pheasants and their crosses—Mating stock Pheasants.

FEEDING PHEASANTS.

Pheasants being wild birds should be treated accordingly—Maize: injurious effects following excessive use of it—Weakly Pheasants and their susceptibility to all diseases—Grain meal and mangel wurzel for Pheasants—Dust and Poultry Powder for Pheasants bring good results and good profits.

SITTING AND HATCHING

Hatching Pheasants under hens—Silkies for hatching Pheasants—Lice on sitting hens: how to destroy—Pheasants turn their eggs.

FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT OF YOUNG PHEASANTS

Young Pheasants: the care of them after hatching—The care of hens when sitting—The feeding of young Pheasants—Runs, &c., for young Pheasants—How to place young Pheasants in the best positions to lit them for sport.

DISEASES

Pheasants not subject to so many diseases as some think—Young Pheasants delicate—Cold, roup, congested lungs and liver disease.

COOPS AND RUNS FOR YOUNG PHEASANTS

Pheasant coops: their use and how to make them—Covered runs: their value and use—Tarring and lime-washing.

PHEASANT RUNS

The peculiarities of Pheasants and their preference for the open—Pheasant runs: how to make and arrange—Dust for Pheasants, and weather boards for pens.

INDEX—Section I.

PHEASANTS.

COCK PHEASANT.

PHEASANTS.

STOCK PHEASANTS FOR BREEDING PURPOSES.

Pheasants in enclosed runs: how to avoid weakening influences of confinement—Grass for stock Pheasants—Pheasants in their wild state, how they look after their young—White pheasants and their crosses—Mating stock Pheasants.

IT is said by people of experience who keep pheasants enclosed for the purpose of breeding, that the young pheasants become weaker every year. That is, if the stock birds are always enclosed and never have their liberty. Of course, it depends a great deal upon the circumstances under which they are kept. Some breeders will keep their birds in very small pens where all the grass is worn down.

Pheasants, above all other birds, should be penned so that they can get plenty of grass.

I lately called upon a pheasant breeder, who kept some hundreds of stock birds, and they were in pens about three yards by six, with one cock and six hens in each pen. To my idea, it is unnatural to keep pheasants in this way for breeding purposes. When these birds are shut up in confined runs it is unnatural to them, though they may be kept in that way and bred from successfully, only under these circumstances they require a great deal more