Book description
First issued in 1941, when the national crisis made it essential for
every scrap of kitchen waste and spare time to be used for increasing
the nation's food resources, this book enabled the meagre official
wartime rations to be supplemented in thousands of homes by a regular
supply of eggs and meat, at a minimum of trouble and expense.
It now reappears, in response to many requests, to play its part in
the hardly less urgent food-production drive of peacetime. Everything
that the small-scale raiser of rabbits or of poultry, whether for
egg-production or for table use, needs to know is here: buying,
housing, feeding, breeding, diseases, are all fully dealt with by
experts, the instructions being given in simple and practical language
for the beginner.
Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps was originally reissued
after the war, in 1949. Here it is once again, a facsimilie edition
with all the delightful original illustrations and advice to keep your
chickens and rabbits happy, whether they be in a city garden or
roaming in a farm yard.
Alan Thompson, author of the poultry section of this book, kept
poultry from the moment he left school. He obtained his technical
knowledge at Harper Adams College and was Editor of the Poultry
Farmer for 15 years. He also farmed livestock in Copthorne,
Sussex, and his voice was familiar to all those who listened to the
BBC poultry talks.
Claude Goodchild, author of the rabbit section, spent the first 35
years of his life on an Essex farm and bred rabbits on a considerable
scale from the age of 15. He later went on to run the largest rabbit
farm of its time in England at Black Corner, near Crawley, Sussex. He
started the Rex rabbit in England, was among the first to breed
Chinchillas and visited Russia in an advisory capacity at the
invitation of the Soviet Government.
