Showing Poultry : a complete guide to exhibiting your birds

Expert Glenn Drowns offers all the information and guidance you need to successfully exhibit your poultry at fairs and expositions. Learn how to select the best breeds and birds for exhibition and how to raise them with the proper diet, health care, and handling so that they are at their best by showtime. Drowns includes a useful countdown to help you plan tasks, from pest prevention to cage training, as well as dozens of tips on what judges are looking for.

Contents:

Getting started -- Acquiring your birds -- Raising birds to show -- Raising healthy birds -- A month ahead: getting ready -- The week of the show -- Showtime -- Poultry showmanship -- Post-show follow-up.

ISBN: 978-1-61212-529-9

2016 Paperback.

Pages: 83; illustrated.

Showing Poultry.