Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Duck, Geese & Turkeys
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Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Duck, Geese & Turkeys by Fred Hams
SEE ISBN 9780754833666 for newer available edition of this book. This comprehensive and practical guide provides all the information that you need in order to start keeping poultry. A buyer's guide shows you what features to look for in healthy poultry. Essential information is provided on feeding, hygiene, treating ailments, and good husbandry. If you are interested in keeping a few hens in the back garden, selling eggs for profit, breeding birds for sale or exhibiting pure breeds, this authoritative guide by a leading and engaging expert, is the perfect book for you.
Fred Hams started his own poultry farm in 1960. Later, he was employed by Wye Agricultural College as a poultry technician and by an environmental health department as a poultry meat inspector. Fred has served on the Ministry of Agriculture's Genetic Resources committee and is a founding member of the Rare Poultry Society. He helped start the poultry fanciers magazine Fancy Fowl, and since 2004 has served as consultant to the best-selling Practical Poultry magazine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780754823520 |
| ISBN 10 | 0754823520 |
| Title | Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Duck, Geese & Turkeys |
| Author | Fred Hams |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Anness Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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