📚 Poultry

The barnyard birds: breeds and eggs and flesh, and the farming that industrialized first.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject poultry in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	National poultry improvement plan	United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service	1980	28
	National Poultry Improvement Plan	United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Veterinary Services	1980	20
	The American poulterer's companion	C. N. Bement	1843	14
	The Book of the Hamburgs	L. Frank Baum	1886	14
	Productive poultry husbandry	Harry Reynolds Lewis	1913	13
	The Dollar Hen	Milo Milton Hastings	1909	12
	The structure of the fowl	O. Charnock Bradley	1915	12
	Early embryology of the chick	Bradley M. Patten	1920	11
	Egg to Chick	Millicent E. Selsam	1946	11
	Modern livestock & poultry production	James R. Gillespie	1981	10
	The American standard of perfection	American Poultry Association	1920	9
	The call of the hen	Hogan, Walter	1914	8
	The practical poultry keeper	Lewis Wright	1867	7
	Domestic poultry	Simon M. Saunders	1877	7
	How to hatch, brood, feed and prevent chicks from dying in the shell	Rebecca Johnson	1905	7
	Practical poultry management	James E. Rice	1925	7
	The mating and breeding of poultry	Harry M. Lamon	2003	7
	Biggle Farm Library Note Cards	Jacob Biggle	2013	7
	Diseases of poultry	Harry Edward Biester	1943	6
	Breed distribution of NPIP participating flocks by states and divisions	United States. Agricultural Research Service	1959	6
	Domesticated Ducks and Geese	J. Batty	1979	6
	Raising chickens for dummies	Kimberley Willis	2015	6
	Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry	H. D. Richardson	1851	5
	The farmers' & amateurs' guide to poultry keeping	Enoch Hutton	1886	5
	How to keep laying hens and to rear chickens, in large or small numbers, in absolute confinement with "perfect success."	George Francis Morant	1907	5
	Poultry production	William Adams Lippincott	1914	5
	ABC of poultry raising	J. H. Florea	1944	5
	Modern poultry husbandry	Leonard Robinson	1951	5
	The Illustrated Guide to Chickens	Celia Lewis	2010	5
	Keeping Chickens For Dummies	Pammy Riggs	2011	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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