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• Gold and Silver Sebright Bantams (London: Feathered World, ca. 1905), by R. Wiseman-Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise Upon the Mating, Rearing and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs (Hartford: H. H. Stoddard, 1886), by L. Frank Baum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hamburghs Up to Date (third edition, ca. 1907), by Charles Holt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Plymouth Rocks, Barred, White, and Buff: Their Practical Qualities, the Standard Requirements, How to Judge Them, How to Breed and Mate for Best Results (Quincy, IL: Reliable Poultry Journal Pub. Co., c1906) (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Microlivestock: Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future (1991), by National Research Council Board on Science and Technology for International Development (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Cattle of Great Britain: Being a Series of Articles on the Various Breeds of Cattle of the United Kingdom, Their History, Management, &c. (London: "The Field" Office, 1875), ed. by John Coleman, illust. by Harrison Weir (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cattle, Sheep and Pigs of Great Britain: Being a Series of Articles on the Various Breeds of the United Kingdom, Their History, Management, &c. (London: H. Cox, "The Field" Office, 1887), ed. by John Coleman, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Family Facts (Webster City, IA: F. Hahne Printing Co., c1956), by Georgianna Hahne Amsden (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Hereford Journal (partial serial archives)

• The Rising Dairy Breed: The French-Canadian Cattle, Also Known as the "Canadian" Breed, and as the "Quebec Jerseys" (ca. 1909)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Dairy Cow: A Monograph on the Ayrshire Breed of Cattle (Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1875), by E. Lewis Sturtevant and J. Bevier Sturtevant
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Cornell

• The Kerry and Dexter Herd Book (partial serial archives)

• Holstein-Friesian Herd Book, by Holstein-Friesian Association of America (partial serial archives)

• History of Randleigh Farm (Lockport, NY: W.R. Kenan, Jr., c1935), by William Rand Kenan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Kerry and Dexter Herd Book (partial serial archives)

• Justin Morgan, Founder of His Race: The Romantic History of a Horse (New York: The Shakespeare Press, 1911), by Eleanor Waring Burnham, illust. by Roger Noble Burnham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Eclipse and O'Kelly: Being a Complete History So Far as is Known of That Celebrated English Thoroughbred Eclipse (1764-1789), of His Breeder the Duke of Cumberland and of his subsequent owners William Wildman, Dennis O'Kelly and Andrew O'Kelly, Now For the First Time Set Forth From the Original Authorities and Family Memoranda (London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Theodore Andrea Cook
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Cattle, Sheep and Pigs of Great Britain: Being a Series of Articles on the Various Breeds of the United Kingdom, Their History, Management, &c. (London: H. Cox, "The Field" Office, 1887), ed. by John Coleman, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Nouveau Traité sur la Laine et sur les Moutons (bound with some related works; in French; Paris: Mme. Huzard et al, 1824), by Gaspard Perrault de Jotemps, Fabry, and Felix Girod de l'Ain
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Cattle, Sheep and Pigs of Great Britain: Being a Series of Articles on the Various Breeds of the United Kingdom, Their History, Management, &c. (London: H. Cox, "The Field" Office, 1887), ed. by John Coleman, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Genetics of the Fowl (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1949), by Frederick Bruce Hutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Basic Chicken Guide for the Small Flock Owner (New York: W. Morrow and Co., 1944), by Roy Edwin Jones, contrib. by E. B. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poultry Flock (Des Moines: Meredith Pub. Co., reprinted 1928), by Kirk Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dollar Hen (1911), by Milo Hastings (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Game Fowl: Its Origin and History; With Sketches of Great Strains and Their Breeders of Former and Present Times, Together With a Complete Treatise on Breeding and Management of Fowls at Home and at the Pit, Their Diseases and Remedies, and Rules of the Cockpit (Gaffney, SC: Presses of Grit and Steel, ca. 1906), by R. A. McIntyre (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Poultry Compendium: Being a Brief Treatise on the Rearing and Management of Domestic Fowls (1885), by Harmon Seeley Babcock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• H. Flock's Revised Breeders' and Cockers' Guide: A Full and Complete Treatise on Raising Game Fowl (Chattanooga: Andrews Printery, c1924), by Henry Flock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sheep, Swine, and Poultry: Embracing the History and Varieties of Each, the Best Modes of Breeding, Their Feeding and Management; Together With the Diseases to Which They are Respectively Subject, and the Appropriate Remedies for Each (Philadelphia: J. E. Potter and Co., 1864), by Robert Jennings (page images at Cornell)

• Stroud's Digest on the Diseases of Birds (Minneapolis: L. G. Marcus and R. Stroud, 1943), by Robert Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Game Fowl: Its Origin and History; With Sketches of Great Strains and Their Breeders of Former and Present Times, Together With a Complete Treatise on Breeding and Management of Fowls at Home and at the Pit, Their Diseases and Remedies, and Rules of the Cockpit (Gaffney, SC: Presses of Grit and Steel, ca. 1906), by R. A. McIntyre (page images at HathiTrust)

• Use of the Rapid Whole-Blood Test for Pullorum Disease (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1941), by Hubert Bunyea (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching (2006), by Michael Greger (illustrated HTML with commentary at birdflubook.com)

• Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching (2006), by Michael Greger (illustrated HTML with commentary at birdflubook.com)

• Feeding Poultry (second edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1955), by G. F. Heuser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poultry Nutrition: For the Use of Feed Manufacturers, Feed Dealers, Feed Salesmen and Service Men, Veterinarians, Hatcherymen, Breeders and Poultrymen (fourth edition (revised); South Pasadena, CA: W. Ray Ewing, 1951), by W. Ray Ewing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Using Distillers Grains in the U.S. and International Livestock and Poultry Industries (c2008), ed. by Bruce A. Babcock, Dermot James Hayes, and John D. Lawrence (PDF with commentary at Iowa State)

• Artificial Brooding (Bulletin #139; Moscow, ID: University of Idaho, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1925), by Raymond T. Parkhurst
  • page images at Idaho
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Genetics of the Fowl (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1949), by Frederick Bruce Hutt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Artificial Brooding (Bulletin #139; Moscow, ID: University of Idaho, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1925), by Raymond T. Parkhurst
  • page images at Idaho
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Artificial Brooding (Bulletin #139; Moscow, ID: University of Idaho, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1925), by Raymond T. Parkhurst
  • page images at Idaho
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Poultry Inspection: The Basis for a Risk-Assessment Approach, by National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Jungle Fowls From Pacific Islands (Bernice Bishop Museum Bulletin #108; Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1933), by Stanley C. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)

• International Review of Poultry Science (partial serial archives)

• The Science of Poultry and Meat Processing (c2015), by Shabtai Barbut (PDF files at poultryandmeatprocessing.com)

• Ducks at a Distance: A Waterfowl Identification Guide, by Bob Hines (PDF at wa.gov)

• The Golden Bird, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by Edward L. Chase (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Hen and the Badger (in English and Karen; Saint Paul, MN: Saint Paul Public Library, 2015), by Saw Powder, illust. by Betsy LePlatt (at reflections.mndigital.org)
• The Little Red Hen (Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., c1938), illust. by Ethel Hays (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Chicken World (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1910), by E. Boyd Smith (page images with commentary at Brooklyn Public Library)
• Chickens and Chicks (Chicago: Brewer, Barse and Co., c1908), by Frances Trego Montgomery, illust. by Hugo von Hofsten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chickies (New York: S. Gabriel Sons and Co., 1920) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Little Wise Chicken That Knew it All (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1918), by Kenneth Graham Duffield (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.