Keeping Chickens and Other Poultry

ebook Looking After Hens, Ducks, Geese, and Turkeys

By Vivien Head

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More and more people are enjoying the benefits of keeping poultry, and chickens are perhaps the most rewarding of all. This book provides a practical guide to chicken husbandry, from hatching your first chicks to cooking with produce that you know has come from happy, free-range birds.

There are clear step-by-step instructions on how to make your own incubator and chicken coop, as well as advice on introducing a cockerel to the flock, broody hens, dealing with disease and much, much more. Topics include:

  • Anatomy of a chicken
  • Choosing chickens
  • Feeding
  • Pests and diseases
  • Eggs
  • Ducks, geese and other poultry
  • Keeping Chickens and Other Poultry