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Keeping Chickens: Choosing, Nurturing & Harvests
Liz Wright
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Description for Keeping Chickens: Choosing, Nurturing & Harvests
Paperback. Offers all the information you need to help you to start keeping chickens, from how to choose, house, feed and handle them to how many eggs they lay, their affect on the local ecosystem and how to protect from foxes and other predators. Series: Digging and Planting. Num Pages: 256 pages, 200 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: TVHP; VSZ; WNF; WNGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
In the last few years, poultry-keeping has enjoyed massive growth, with heavy TV coverage featuring chefs such as Jamie Oliver. It is another symptom of our weariness of mass-produced, tasteless supermarket food - the appeal of being able to nip into the back garden to get fresh eggs for breakfast, knowing that the hens have been well kept, fed and loved. This highly practical book is aimed at beginners to the hobby and will explain everything you need to know to get started keeping chickens, from how to choose, house, feed and handle them to how many eggs they will ... Read more
In the last few years, poultry-keeping has enjoyed massive growth, with heavy TV coverage featuring chefs such as Jamie Oliver. It is another symptom of our weariness of mass-produced, tasteless supermarket food - the appeal of being able to nip into the back garden to get fresh eggs for breakfast, knowing that the hens have been well kept, fed and loved. This highly practical book is aimed at beginners to the hobby and will explain everything you need to know to get started keeping chickens, from how to choose, house, feed and handle them to how many eggs they will ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Flame Tree Publishing
Condition
New
Series
Digging and Planting
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786642295
SKU
KOG0000332
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Liz Wright
Tracey Smith is a passionate advocate for sustainability. A broadcaster, author of The Book of Rubbish Ideas and creator of InterNational Downshifting Week, her new series, The Great Downshift unlocks its secrets, warts and all. Her poultry-peak stands at 43 chickens, 10 ducks and 2 guinea fowl and she’s given away more eggs than you can shake a stick at... ... Read more
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