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
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
