This special re-print edition of the Poultry Chronicle's book "The Poultry Keeper's Manual" is a complete guide to raising chickens for eggs and meat. Written in 1876, this classic English text on poultry contains the basics of raising poultry, be it for eggs, for meat purposes or for pleasure. Included are all the basic elements of breed selection, coops and other forms of housing, how to hatch eggs, care of young chicks and much more. Some of the topics covered include The Selection of Breeding Stock, Keeping Poultry in a Confined Space, The Poultry Yard and Its Fittings, Management of Sitting Hens, Treatment in the Winter, Poultry Fattening for Meat Purposes, Poultry Exhibitions, Killing and Dressing Poultry, Preserving Eggs, Different Breeds of Poultry and much more. 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.