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A comprehensive guide for the amateur gamekeeper, Rearing Game Birds and Gamekeeping provides practical step-by-step advice on how to raise pheasants and red-leg partridges, with a particular emphasis on the health and welfare of the birds.
Beth Williams provides an insight into each species and covers a range of topics from choosing breeding stock and incubating eggs to rearing chicks and nurturing game. This hands-on guide draws on a wide range of accepted best practices, including experiences of overseas successes, and advises on rearing game in a low-cost and effective manner, without compromising on quality.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Background and buying-in the stock 2. Egg-laying and incubation 3. The first growth period 4. Release pens 5. Broody hens and stock maintenance 6. Hygiene and managing disease 7. Game crops and legal cover 8. Pest and predator control 9. A final few words References and resources Index

Rearing Game Birds and Gamekeeping: Management

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      Publisher Quiller Publishing Ltd
      Published 14 February 2013
      ISBN-13 9781846891441
      978-1846891441
      ISBN-10 1846891442

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A comprehensive guide for the amateur gamekeeper, Rearing Game Birds and Gamekeeping provides practical step-by-step advice on how to raise pheasants and red-leg partridges, with a particular emphasis on the health and welfare of the birds.
      Beth Williams provides an insight into each species and covers a range of topics from choosing breeding stock and incubating eggs to rearing chicks and nurturing game. This hands-on guide draws on a wide range of accepted best practices, including experiences of overseas successes, and advises on rearing game in a low-cost and effective manner, without compromising on quality.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Background and buying-in the stock 2. Egg-laying and incubation 3. The first growth period 4. Release pens 5. Broody hens and stock maintenance 6. Hygiene and managing disease 7. Game crops and legal cover 8. Pest and predator control 9. A final few words References and resources Index

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