Excerpt from The New American Poultry Book, Containing All the Different, Varieties of Fowls: With Complete Instructions, How to Raise Poultry the Best Layers and Sitters the Best Soils on Which to Keep Them How to Feed Management of Layers and Sitters Point of Beauty Dictionary of Poultry Terms Incubation Management of the Mother

The pullets attain full size at an early age, and are in their prime when eight months old. Brahmas are doubtless the largest of all the varieties of domestic fowls, some have been known to weigh seventeen pounds, which exceeds the weight of any other breed.

Light Brahma, Cock And Hen.

The dark Brahmas have steadily progressed in favor since their first introduction, their gigantic size, great weight, hardihood and prolificacy, and the ease with which they can be kept in confined ranges, all tend to render them much esteemed. To sum up their merits, as good, useful, hardy fowls, they are unsurpassed. They are good layers of good sized eggs, good foragers and good sitters, as mothers they cannot be excelled, no fowls being more careful not to step on their chickens, brooding: them better, or searching more diligently for food.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.