Domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, meat, or feathers

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Old Calabar dog biscuits : allegro : à tout vitesse.

Dr. to H. F. Richards : Poulterer, game, butter & egg dealer & provision merchant : terms monthly.

Two hens feeding with chicks in the foreground with a broody hen with younger chicks behind. Etching by H Bonnart.

A cockerel surrounded by sparrows and a hen pecking the ground. Engraving by P. Tempest, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.

Practical notes on trussing poultry for the table and market / [W.B. Tegetmeier] ; presented by W. Bellamy.

J. Sainsbury, purveyor of high class provisions, poultry & game.

Old Calabar dog biscuits : moderato : allure modérée.

Extraordinary novelty! : exhibition of the Eccaleobion whereby life in countless thousands of animal beings, from a wren to an eagle, is produced by machinery... : at 121 Pall Mall.

We ask the favour of a consideration of the following press notices... / The Liverine Company.

A domestics couple of low caste. Gouache drawing.

A cockerel with hens and chicks looking for food outside a pig sty. Engraving by P. Tempest, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.

Some experiments on the changes which take place in the fixed principles of the egg during incubation.

Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play cards. Engraving by R. Delaunay after Marchais after D. Teniers.

A treatise on the history and management of ornamental and domestic poultry / by Edmund Saul Dixon ; with large additions by J. J. Kerr.

Poultry keeping / by E. Comyns-Lewer and Sidney H. Lewer.

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Poultry

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A cockerel with hens and chicks looking for food outside a pig sty. Engraving by P. Tempest, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.

Some experiments on the changes which take place in the fixed principles of the egg during incubation.

Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play cards. Engraving by R. Delaunay after Marchais after D. Teniers.

A treatise on the history and management of ornamental and domestic poultry / by Edmund Saul Dixon ; with large additions by J. J. Kerr.

Poultry keeping / by E. Comyns-Lewer and Sidney H. Lewer.

Poultry

Images from the collections

Images referencing Poultry

Works from the collections

A cockerel with hens and chicks looking for food outside a pig sty. Engraving by P. Tempest, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.

Some experiments on the changes which take place in the fixed principles of the egg during incubation.

Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play cards. Engraving by R. Delaunay after Marchais after D. Teniers.

A treatise on the history and management of ornamental and domestic poultry / by Edmund Saul Dixon ; with large additions by J. J. Kerr.

Poultry keeping / by E. Comyns-Lewer and Sidney H. Lewer.

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