Showing Poultry A Complete Guide to Exhibiting Your Birds. A Storey BASICS® Title

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.

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.

Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Acquiring Your Birds
Chapter 3: Raising Birds to Show
Chapter 4: Raising Healthy Birds
Chapter 5: A Month Ahead: Getting Ready
Chapter 6: The Week of the Show
Chapter 7: Showtime
Chapter 8: Poultry Showmanship
Chapter 9: Post-Show Follow-Up
Countdown Checklist
Show Record
Index