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Chickens

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  • Various birds: chickens on the ground; an owl, magpie and woodpecker on a tree; ducks and eagles in the air. Etching by C. Mosley, ca. 1760.
  • Increase your stock of eggs by giving Ovagen : the non-forcing egg producer... / S. Stephens.
  • Avian blood
  • Singapore: five separate illustrations of Asian game birds and a weighing device. Watercolours by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • Embryonic chick skeleton
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Catalogue

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    L'incubation et les maladies du poussin / par Jean Perdrix.

    Perdrix, Jean. | Date: 1950
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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.

    Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704. | Date: 1690 | Reference: 42813i
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    Various birds: chickens on the ground; an owl, magpie and woodpecker on a tree; ducks and eagles in the air. Etching by C. Mosley, ca. 1760.

    | Date: 1760 | Reference: 43296i
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    Note sur une inclusion rencontrée dans un oeuf de poule / par C. van Bambeke.

    Bambeke, Ch. van (Charles), 1829-1918. | Date: 1884
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    "In sickness & in health" : Brand's Essence of Beef or Chicken / Brand & Co. Ltd.

    Brand & Co. (Vauxhall, London, England) | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]
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