A Guide To Pheasants And Waterfowl

Author of the highly regarded A Guide to Pigeons, Doves & Quail, Dr Danny Brown has produced this superlative title on pheasants and waterfowl. The informative, easy-to-read text is lavishly supported with beautiful colour images throughout. Covering all aspects of caring, housing, management and breeding of these unique birds, this title is a credit to the author and an ideal reference source. CONTENTS Housing Aviaries Construction Pens Yards Vermin Water Facilities Perches Floor Material Compatibility and Hybridisation Restraint and Handling Flight Restriction Nesting Facilities Reproductive Manipulation and Sexing Vent Sexing Artificial Incubation Candling Brooding Identification Incubation Troubleshooting Nutrition Feeding Making the Most of your Avian Veterinarian Choosing your Stock Quarantine Common Diseases and Disorders Parasitic Diseases Bacterial Infections Fungal Infections Viral Diseases Trauma Egg Binding Nutritional and Skeletal Disorders Administration of Medications SPECIES Waterfowl Magpie Goose Black Swan Mute Swan Canada Goose Cape Barren Goose Grass Whistling Duck Water Whistling Duck Burdekin Duck Ruddy Shelduck Australian Shelduck New Zealand Shelduck Egyptian Goose Grey Teal Chestnut Teal Pacific Black Duck Australasian Shoveler Pink-eared Duck Freckled Duck Australian Wood Duck Green Pygmy-goose White Pygmy-goose Mandarin Duck Carolina Duck White-eyed Duck New Zealand Scaup Australian Blue-billed Duck Musk Duck Pheasants Silver Pheasant Swinhoe's Pheasant Siamese Fireback Pheasant Nepal Kalij Pheasant Golden Pheasant Lady Amherst's Pheasant Reeve's Pheasant Ring-necked Pheasant Red Junglefowl Blue Peafowl Green Peafowl Guineafowl Chukar Partridge