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The Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Ducks, Geese & Turkeys: A Directory of Poultry Breeds and How to Keep Them: with Step-by-step Techniques and More Than 650 Colour Photographs

The Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Ducks, Geese & Turkeys: A Directory of Poultry Breeds and How to Keep Them: with Step-by-step Techniques and More Than 650 Colour Photographs

by Fred Hams (Author)

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    Hardcover 2012

    $35.88
Synopsis

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.

$35.88

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Lorenz Books
Published: 31 May 2012
ISBN 10: 0754823520
ISBN 13: 9780754823520

Author Bio
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.