Lecture by Alan Chadwick in New Market, Virginia, 1979
Lecture 27.3, Animal Study: Livestock, Part 2
An Introduction to Alan Chadwick's Lectures and a Glossary of Terms
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Differences between the heavy and the light breeds. Making crosses between the two types of birds, but this can be done only once. Keep everything perfectly clean inside the hen house. The process for breeding rabbits. Ten does will produce three hundred offspring per year. Rabbits must always be kept dry and have access to free range. Never feed with pellets. When mating, they must have complete privacy or they will kill their young. Rest them from mating during the summer. Rabbits make a very high quality manure. Geese should run in pairs. (20:43)