Choosing & Raising Chickens: The Complete Guide to Breeds and Welfare

Choosing & Raising Chickens: The Complete Guide to Breeds and Welfare

by JeremyHobson (Author), Celia Lewis (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: David & Charles
Published: 09 Sep 2009

ISBN 10: 0715333100
ISBN 13: 9780715333105

Author Bio
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.