Choosing and raising chickens : The complete guide to breeds and welfare
Hobson, Jeremy200909UU
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A practical and comprehensive guide to chicken breeds. Featuring over 70 breeds, it includes information on feeding, housing and welfare as well as easy-to-use keys to selecting suitable breeds. 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.
Main title:
Choosing and raising chickens : The complete guide to breeds and welfare / Jeremy Hobson, Celia Lewis.
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Imprint:
Newton Abbot : David & Charles PLC : [distributor] Grantham Book Services Ltd : [distributor] Capricorn Link Australia Pty Ltd : [distributor] David Bateman Ltd : [distributor] Trinity Books CC : [distributor] F & W Media, 2009.
Collation:
160 p. : 130 col., photo., . ; 22x22x1 cm.
Notes:
Paperback. With flaps.
Contents:
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.
Biography/History:
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.
ISBN:
9780715336649 (pbk)0715336649 (pbk)
Dewey class:
636.5
Language:
English
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BRN:
3739538
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