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

Hams, Fred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754823520 ISBN 13: 9780754823520

Publisher: Lorenz Books, 2011

Synopsis

SEE ISBN 9780754833666 for newer available edition of this book. 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.

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lorenz Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754823520
• ISBN 13: 9780754823520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256