Rationing allows beginners to purchase food for 12 hens. 12 hens can supply a household with fresh eggs throughout the year. But how is one to start, and if started how is one to get the best results? This book will tell you everything you want to know: whether to make a house and run what breed to keep where and how to buy the stock what to feed them with, including all the wartime substitutes for peacetime food how to breed for profit and the various problems connected with hatching, rearing and particularly disease. The author, who is a practical expert of long experience, writes not only for the backyard beginner but also for the larger poutrykeeper who has up to 50 fowls. Contents Include: The House and Run What Breed Shall I keep? Purchasing the Stock Feeding and Management Breeding Poultry for Profit Hatching and Rearing the Chickens Disposing of Surplus Stock Health and Disease in the Poultry Yard Money and Kudos in Utility ShowingKeywords: Surplus Stock Poultry Yard Hens Fresh Eggs Purchase Food Kudos Chickens Household