Keeping Chickens and Other Poultry

More and more people are enjoying the benefits of keeping poultry, and chickens are perhaps the most rewarding of all. This book provides a practical guide to chicken husbandry, from hatching your first chicks to cooking with produce that you know has come from happy, free-range birds.


There are clear step-by-step instructions on how to make your own incubator and chicken coop, as well as advice on introducing a cockerel to the flock, broody hens, dealing with disease and much, much more.


Topics include:

• Anatomy of a chicken

• Choosing chickens

• Feeding

• Pests and diseases

• Eggs

• Ducks, geese and other poultry