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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.

Singapore: five separate illustrations of Asian game birds and a weighing device. Watercolours by J. Taylor, 1879.

Three girls look at three dead chickens: protecting against avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by UNICEF and Longman, ca. 2000.

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

"In sickness & in health" : Brand's Essence of Beef or Chicken / Brand & Co. Ltd.

Factory-farming of eggs. Engraving, 17--.

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

Crippled by the system : intensively reared chickens, dying and deformed! / Friends of Animals Under Abuse (FAUNA).

Weak after illness? : He needs Brand's : In colds, chills, measles, influenza, chickenpox- all children's complaints, give Brand's chicken or beef Essence : 2/3, 2/9, 3/-.

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

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

Note sur une inclusion rencontrée dans un oeuf de poule / par C. van Bambeke.

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

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

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.

Note sur une inclusion rencontrée dans un oeuf de poule / par C. van Bambeke.

"In sickness & in health" : Brand's Essence of Beef or Chicken / Brand & Co. Ltd.