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Choosing and Raising Chickens
 

Choosing and Raising Chickens

The Complete Guide to Breeds and Welfare

Jeremy Hobson  
Celia Lewis  

160 pages
Publisher: David & Charles, UK



   
Paperback - 2009
ISBN: 9780715333105 - AU $ 29.99
 

 This is a practical and comprehensive everything-you-need-to-know guide to chicken breeds for anyone who keeps chickens, is considering keeping chickens or aspires to keep chickens. Comprehensive content features over 70 breeds which reveals how, as well as being useful, chickens are interesting and colourful characters. This guide includes essential practical information on feeding, housing and welfare as well as easy-to-use keys to selecting the most suitable breeds. Chickens make great pets -- they are low maintenance living on the scraps that you throw away, and are easy-going, plus they thrive in small urban areas and backyards. 

 
    Introduction
    How to use this book
    Anatomy of chicken
    Things to consider
    Breeds (each breed will have a key demonstrating its characteristics)
    Soft feather heavy/light hard feather
    Bantam
    Purpose: layer, table or game
    Egg laying
    Ease of keeping
    Sociability
    Hybrids
    Rescue chickens
    Cock crowing competition
    Housing and cleaning
    Buying
    Feeding
    Breeding
    Eggs
    Health and Welfare
    Chicken selector
    Index
 

 Jeremy Hobson is a countryside consultant and a regular contributor to a number of country magazines and has kept chickens for most of his life, winning several major poultry prizes. This is his sixth book for David & Charles. Celia Lewis is an artist/craftsperson with a special interest in hens. 

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