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RAISING CHICKENS COVERS all aspects of looking after your chickens, from the joys of seeing your first chicks hatch, caring for them and helping them develop into happy and healthy birds, to finally seeing them safely and humanely despatched. It intentionally avoids the rose tinted image of keeping chickens and tells it ‘how it is,’ for example, how to introduce them to the family pet and how to keep them safe from foxes and other vermin. This honest and realistic book also covers illness and death and culling and butchering, ensuring that any prospective chicken keepers will be fully aware of their responsibilities to their birds. Paperback 172 pages
Reviews
Add ReviewJacqueline Keeble - Dec 7 2009 2:58PM
Great book, very informative with all the basic information you need to raise your own chickens for meat or eggs. Goes from raising your own chicks from incubating the eggs, to preparing the grown birds for the table. A must have for anyone who wants to cut out supermarket poultry from their diet and grow their own, with the knowledge required to produce birds that will have had the best quality of life.
Allotment and Leisure Gardener - Sep 16 2009 9:24AM
"This book is the vade-mecum for anyone who would keep chickens on an allotment plot...it deals with nurturing the fowl and tells it like it is...it also deals with the sheer delight of keeping chickens."
Peter Weston - Jan 24 2010 10:41PM
i have bean playing as a chicken keeper for two years now and wanted to get better so i have brought several books , this one is by far the best it contains all the information i needed and the photos are great, because of the book i have become a better keeper we now have eggs being produced properly and not haphazzardly and one word describes the other out come and thats yum. if you want a book that answers the questions its this book, its great i would tell everyone to buy it
