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Chicken Manual Laurence Beeken

Chicken Manual By Laurence Beeken

Chicken Manual by Laurence Beeken


$38.99
Condition - Very Good
40+ in stock

Summary

A guide for the growing band of people wishing to keep their own chickens for both food and pleasure. It contains advice, tips, facts and step-by step sequences, as well as photographs and diagrams.

Chicken Manual Summary

Chicken Manual: The complete step-by-step guide to keeping chickens by Laurence Beeken

This book, the latest innovative Haynes Manual, will provide a complete and easy-to-understand reference for the growing band of people wishing to keep their own chickens for both food and pleasure. Pitched at the novice but also containing plenty to interest the experienced chicken-keeper, the book will contain no-nonsense advice, tips, facts and step-by step sequences, as well as plenty of relevant photographs and diagrams. As more people keep chickens nowadays than at any time since the Second World War, this book is a timely addition to the Haynes range.

Chicken Manual Reviews

'a complete and easy-to-follow reference for the novice.' Practical Poultry

'In typical Haynes style, this 192-page hardback provides a complete and easy-to-follow reference for the novice poultry keeper.' Practical Poultry

'a superb book' Keep Chickens
'a good, easy-to-understand reference manual for the novice, as well as having plenty to interest more experienced keepers.' Kitchen Garden

'eminently readable and full of practical advice.' Your Chickens

'a complete and easy-to-follow reference for the novice' Practical Poultry

About Laurence Beeken

Laurence Beeken has kept poultry for 20 years both as a back-garden hobby and for exhibition, showing at National level. He has contributed to Kitchen Garden magazine, providing articles and pictures covering all aspects of poultry-keeping, from egg to plate. He lives near Spalding, Lincolnshire.

Table of Contents

Four major sections are devoted to 'Getting started', 'Keeping your chickens', 'Specialist information' and 'Problems'. Getting started: choosing a breed, the popular breeds (30 are highlighted), hybrids, other poultry, the various ways of acquiring chickens (including hatching your own). Keeping your chickens: daily care, seasonal care, feeding and watering, housing, security from predators (two-legged and four-legged), vermin (rats/mice, foxes, mink/stoats/weasels, pigeons, magpies/crows), laying (types of eggs, selling, regulations), first aid. Specialist information: anatomy and plumage, colours and markings, breeding (reproduction, mating, incubation, hatching, rearing), showing, conservation, dispatching (methods of killing, dressing). Problems: common diseases (includes simple diagnosis charts), biology, health, nutrition, bird 'flu facts. Step-by-step procedures will feature where relevant, in time-honoured Haynes style, and will include construction of a poultry house and brooder and how to use an incubator correctly.

Additional information

GOR003703269
9781844257294
1844257290
Chicken Manual: The complete step-by-step guide to keeping chickens by Laurence Beeken
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Haynes Publishing Group
2010-02-04
200
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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