Keeping Chickens: The Essential Guide (Paperback)
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Once you’ve decided which chickens you’d like to keep, how do you go about caring for them? Poultry keepers Hobson and Lewis have produced a nice introduction to backyard chicken keeping. In 11 chapters they consider all aspects of chicken care and maintenance. The authors first look at understanding chickens and what to consider before adding them to the family, followed by choosing a breed (with breed descriptions) and obtaining stock. Chicken care is covered in a chapter on housing and cleaning and one on how to feed your new acquisitions. All you ever wanted to know about eggs, breeding information, and health care fill a section each, with egg crafts and egg recipes completing the text. Delightfully illustrated with pastoral photographs of contented chickens and lovely small watercolors, this British import is a good basic start to chicken keeping Bent, Nancy Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Keeping Chickens: The Essential Guide
This book has wonderful color photos and great descriptions for the breeds. We have a young daughter so it was helpful to learn which breeds did well with children.
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Great book
This is a great book for the whole family with lots of information, pictures, and even craft projects and recipes! My son and his family are new to raising chickens.
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well rounded intro to back yard flocks
This book is wonderfully illustrated, covers a wide range of topics, but doesn’t delve too deeply into any of them, and also contains segments with craft ideas for eggs and…
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Also, It’s a beautiful book…
I agree with the positive comments about this book by other reviewers, but I wanted to add that the photography and typographical layout of this book are wonderful!
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Chickens
This book for raising chickens is pritty good. It tells you the basic information on how to rais them and how to keep them healthy.
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lots of great info
I found this book filled with lots of great information. I enjoy chickens and am always looking to learn more about them.
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So You Want A Chicken
This book is loaded with great color photos and tons of good info about how to set-up and maintain a small flock of happy, healthy chickens.
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Keeping Chickens
An entertaining and informative read, good for the novice or anyone that is just starting with chickens
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If only one chicken-keeping guide were chosen for either a rural or urban library, it should be this
Anyone keeping chickens, especially those new to the art, will welcome KEEPING CHICKENS: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO ENJOYING AND GETTING THE BEST FROM CHICKENS.