Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Duck, Geese & Turkeys: A Directory of Poultry Breeds and How to Keep Them

Hams, Fred

ISBN 10: 0754823520 / ISBN 13: 9780754823520

Published by Lorenz Books, 2011

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Duck, Geese & Turkeys: A Directory of Poultry Breeds and How to Keep Them
• Publisher: Lorenz Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754823520
• ISBN 13: 9780754823520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1340 grams

About this title

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.