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Selected Poultry Books by experienced experts in the field.
Chickens at Home - Michael Roberts & Victoria Roberts One of the easiest books to follow on keeping chickens or bantams in your garden, orchard or smallholding. With over 125,000 copies sold this is a must for all chicken owners. Reprinted with new colour photographs (Aug 2009 10th edition) Chickens at Home - Michael Roberts & Victoria Roberts One of the...
If you are wanting to keep a few ducks or geese, this is the book for you. There are chapters on the different breeds, marketing ducks and geese, breeding, different methods of keeping ducks and geese, hatching and rearing, general management, exhibition and diseases and ailments. Now revised and updated with over 70 new colour photographs (Aug. 2012) If you are wanting to keep a few ducks or geese, this is the book for you....
Guinea Fowl Past and Present - Michael Roberts This book includes new historical references, methods of keeping Crested and Vulturine guineafowl, experiences of wild guineafowl in Africa and keeping and rearing guineafowl on a small scale. The book contains chapters on housing, breeding, sexing and large scale commercial rearing together with... Guinea Fowl Past and Present - Michael Roberts This book includes new...
BRAND NEW 2015 EDITION Incubation - A Guide to Hatching and Rearing covers the history of incubation and hatching. It includes information about the egg, the breeders, the incubator, the principles of incubation, incubation practice and home-made incubators. The book is suitable for beginners as well as the more experienced. The rearing section includes... BRAND NEW 2015 EDITION Incubation - A Guide to Hatching and Rearing covers...
BRAND NEW 2015 EDITION Keeping Quail covers the history, housing, feeding, health care, incubation and breeding of quail on a small or medium scale. The book is applicable to those keeping them for pleasure, as well as for the table. Various Coturnix breeds are included, with details on how to provide the best living conditions, including a section on... BRAND NEW 2015 EDITION Keeping Quail covers the history, housing, feeding,...
Today we are more aware of the damage vermin can cause to livestock and diseases they may carry. By reading this book you should eradicate pests that prey on livestock, mites, fleas and disease via food contamination. One of the most dangerous predators to birds is the fox, a section on how to prevent fox entry, protection of hen houses and how to catch... Today we are more aware of the damage vermin can cause to livestock and...
As people have become more concearned and informed about the ways in which their food is produced, processed, preserved, packaged and presented to them on shop shelves, many have made the decision either to buy certified organic, free-range and ethically produced produce or to "grow there own" and this includes keeping poultry. Not only does... As people have become more concearned and informed about the ways in which...
BRAND NEW 2015 EDITION CHICKENS • DUCKS • GEESE TURKEYS • GUINEA FOWL This 120 page book provides excellent coverage of what is involved in managing a flock of organic poultry, including laying and table chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowl. It aims to clarify a situation where there is considerable confusion about... BRAND NEW 2015 EDITION CHICKENS • DUCKS • GEESE TURKEYS •...
This book is all about Coturuix quail, with fascinating chapters on their history and domestication. There is detailed information about keeping quail not only for a hobby but also commercially, with 30 colour photographs including most of the colour variations in Coturuix quail and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations. This book is all about Coturuix quail, with fascinating chapters on their...
This book is all about Coturuix quail, with fascinating chapters on their history and domestication. There is detailed information about keeping quail not only for a hobby but also commercially, with 30 colour photographs including most of the colour variations in Coturuix quail, with numerous black and white photographs and illustrations. •... This book is all about Coturuix quail, with fascinating chapters on their...