Margaret Mahaney Talks About Turkeys

About this eBook

Author

Mahaney, Margaret

Credits

Produced by Charlene Taylor, Sonya Schermann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

SF: Agriculture: Animal culture

Subject

Turkeys

Category

Text

eBook-No.

47067

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47067

Release Date

October 6, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MARGARET MAHANEY Talks About Turkeys
2. 2.INTRODUCTION By Philip R. Park
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. 4.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.A LETTER TO MY READERS
6. 6.FACTS ABOUT TURKEY RAISING — BREEDING
7. 7.BRIEF OUTLINE OF MY METHOD OF RAISING TURKEYS — THROWING THE RED
8. 8.BREEDING — SELECTION AND TREATMENT OF BREEDING STOCK — RULES FOR THE SELECTION OF STOCK — KIND OF HENS TO SELECT — NUMBER OF FEMALES TO ONE MALE — CARE TO BE GIVEN BREEDING STOCK — MATING — FEEDING DURING BREEDING SEASON — NESTS AND NESTING. — HATCHING — FIRST FEED — AVOID VERMIN — THE SETTING OF THE TURKEY HEN
9. 9.THE THROWING OF THE RED AND YOUNG TURKEYS
10. 10.INVESTIGATION OF DISEASES
11. 11.BLACKHEAD — MY FIRST SUCCESSFUL FIGHT AGAINST BLACKHEAD — TO DETECT BLACKHEAD — TREATMENT OF FULL GROWN TURKEYS — BLACKHEAD IN YOUNG TURKEYS — STARTS WITH A COMMON COLD — Treatment of a Common Cold.
12. 12.COMMON DISEASES — RHEUMATISM — “ROTTEN CROP” SOMETIMES MISTAKEN FOR BLACKHEAD — COLD—CATARRH—COUGH—BRONCHITIS — ROUP — CONSUMPTION OF THE THROAT — CONSUMPTION OF THE LUNGS — SWOLLEN HEADS — SORE EYES AND HEAD — CONSTIPATION IN TURKEYS — DIARRHEA — Diarrhea in Little Turkeys — GAPES — TAPE WORM — PERITONITIS
13. 13.THE BRONZE TURKEY — THE ORGANS AND SIZE — COLORING — SELECTION OF BREEDING STOCK — MARKETING — DRESSING — SHIPPING
14. 14.Transcriber's Note

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