Choosing and Keeping Chickens (Paperback)
Do you raise chickens as part of the family or as a livelihood? Are you looking for helpful information to provide the best care for your chickens? Or are you just curious to learn more about this popular animal? Choosing and Keeping Chickens provides detailed information about the most prevalent types of chickens. Learn all about their appearance, key traits, general temperament, health concerns, and estimated life span. This book also describes characteristics of the eggs laid by each type of chicken as well as birds that best mix with each breed, so you can make better choices in setting up your coops. Seasonal guides detail the changing needs of chickens over the course of a year and reveal what every chicken keeper should look for as well as how to best arrange chicken housing during various climates. Whether you seek help with your chicken keeping, or just want to know more about chickens, Choosing and Keeping Chickens can help you beco (more…)
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Any holding strong in farm management at all levels, including the small home farmer, will want this
At-a-glance information accompanies color photos of all kinds of chickens, offering the details one needs to know right away: maintenance levels, looks, exhibition possibilities,…
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Very Imformative and great pictures
This is a great book with lots of wonderful pictures. I read it after reading Living with Chickens. The 2 books together really gave me extensive information.
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Choosing and Keeping Chickens
I love the book the photos are great and I found the information helpful. I would recommend this book the first time chicken owner or someone who has then for a while.
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very useful book
This is my second favorite chicken book. Great basic info. on setting up for chickens, keeping them, and, most importantly, on what breeds are best for your particular…
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Choosing and Keeping Chickens
Nice overview and great photography of the different chicken breeds. Has details on how chickens produce for eggs, meat of show.
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Great variety of info — bad photo editing
I really love the layout and color of this book. But some of the info is just plain crazy — like the overly complex method the author suggests when using a broody hen.
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Pretty pictures
This book covers over 50 breeds(100 pages) of chickens. Lots of pretty pictures. For each breed it lists looks, personality, laying performance & day-to-day info.
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Not chicken about keeping chickens!
I’m so glad I choose to order Chris Graham’s book, “Choosing and Keeping Chickens.” It was recommended by someone online who said it wasn’t as boring as some of the other books on…
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Good discussion of breeds.
The advice about breeds was spot-on. When they say flighty, they mean it. And when they recommend newbies steer clear of a specific breed, the advice is worth listening to.
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Lovely book, but doesn’t cover everything
This book is full of photos and general info.
The info on the few specific breeds that they do discuss was inconsistent.