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.

Showing Poultry begins with an explanation of how showing poultry teaches values and best techniques to both exhibitors and spectators, demonstrating how a quality animal should look and how to achieve that goal.

About the Author
Glenn Drowns, author of Showing Poultry and Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edition, and his wife conserve and promote rare breeds and varieties of turkeys, ducks, geese, and chickens at their Sand Hill Preservation Center in Calamus, Iowa. Drowns, a highly respected poultry judge, has raised standard turkey varieties since 1989, and he received the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy's Breed Conservation Award in 1999 for his contributions to the identification and survival of rare turkeys.


Book Information
ISBN 9781612125299
Author Glenn Drowns
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Storey Publishing LLC
Publisher Workman Publishing
Weight(grams) 100g
Dimensions(mm) 176mm * 126mm * 10mm