Practical Pheasant Rearing


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Practical Pheasant Rearing


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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.




Practical Game Preserving


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Practical Game-preserving


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Rearing Game Birds and Gamekeeping


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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.













The Reliable Pheasant Standard - The Recognized Authority


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This vintage book contains a comprehensive and practical guide on the culture, breeding, rearing, trapping, preserving, cross-mating, protecting, stocking, hunting, and propagation of a variety of birds. It includes information on pheasants, game birds, ornamental land and water fowl, singing birds, and more. This detailed and accessible guide contains a wealth of invaluable information for farmers and poultry-keepers, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. The chapters of this book include: “General History and Management of Pheasants”, “The Caring and Breeding of Matured Pheasants”, “Method of Raising Pheasants Successfully”, “Pheasant Breeding Yields an Enormous Profit”, “Recipe for Cold and Roup”, “An Ideal Pheasantry”, “A Practical Poultry-Yard Gate”, etcetera. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, high quality edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on aviculture.




The Pheasant


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This special re-print edition of Alfred E.T. Watson's book "The Pheasant" is a treasury of information on the keeping of pheasants, as well as how to hunt and how to prepare them for the table. Written in the early 1890's, this classic text contains nearly 300 pages of information on Pheasants. The book is split into three sections, Natural History of the Pheasant, Shooting the Pheasant and Cookery of the Pheasant. Chapters include The Pheasant in History, The Pheasant of the Woodlands, Freaks and Oddities, Old World Fowling, Poaching in the 19th Century Style, Prince and Peasant - Peer and Pheasant, How To Show Pheasants, How To Kill Pheasants, Wild Bred and Hand Reared Pheasants, Policy and Protection, Landscape and Larder, Cookery of the Pheasant and more. In addition to a large amount of practical historical information, is also included Illustrated with wonderful 19th century prints, drawings and diagrams. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.