The Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Duck, Geese & Turkeys: A directory of poultry breeds and how to keep them: with step-by-step instructions and more than 650 colour photographs

Hams, Fred

ISBN 10: 0754823520 / ISBN 13: 9780754823520

Published by Lorenz Books, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Duck, Geese & Turkeys: A directory of poultry breeds and how to keep them: with step-by-step instructions and more than 650 colour photographs
• Publisher: Lorenz Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754823520
• ISBN 13: 9780754823520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1781084498.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 8115823
• Signed: 6/10/2026 9:41:38 AM
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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.
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About the Author

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.