A practical and indispensable guide which covers all you need to know about keeping poultry in your own back garden. Find out: What housing and basic equipment you need. How to choose and obtain the right poultry for the space you have available. Which are the best breeds of chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese and quail for your circumstances. How to help your poultry settle into their new homes. How to feed and care for your poultry. How to breed your ownHow to store eggs and increase production. And even how to cull your birds.
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The essential guide to keeping your own poultry from the bestselling author of Vegetable Growing Month by Month.
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John Harrison has had an interest in chickens since he was a young child but it wasn't until he was able to get his own allotment that he was able to put his dream into reality and start raising his own birds. Now not only does he keep a small flock in his back garden, but he and his daughter Cara provide help and advice to newcomers to keeping chickens on the poultry pages of his popular allotment website, which is the UK's number one allotment website. He is also the author of the bestselling Vegetable Growing Month by Month.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By John.T
Format:Paperback
As head gardener to Woodside Lodge Hotel in the New Forest & a horticultural lecturer I am often asked for my opinion on the many books out there & just how helpful they can be. We have recently embarked on a project to provide our own free range eggs to hotel guests along with the organic vegetables from the walled gardens. I was recommended to read The book on 'Backyard Chickens' by John Harrison & his daughter. As well as being a really good read it has all the information one needs to get you started on the road to successful chicken keeping. I can only echo the other reviews, it scores top marks for value & content. John Trim
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I purchased this book knowing absolutely nothing about chickens but with a desire to own some. I now feel completely confident to face up up to the prospect of owning and caring for them.Thats how helpfull this book has been.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By a. bookworm
Format:Paperback
John Harrison's latest volume, written in collaboration with his daughter, covers all the basics of keeping backyard chickens and other poultry. It will give all the information needed to someone researching the subject before they embark on this endearing hobby and will stand as a useful reference title to those new to it and those more experienced alike.
By Oddjob
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Good reference which has been useful on more than one occasion on the our chicken keeping ventures. Recommend it as such for new chicken keepers.
By madhatternan
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quite informative if you are just starting out with chickens and wont to know that bit more on how to keep them
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Being novelists to keeping chickens my husband and I found this book very useful and informative, great tips a very handy book indeed
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I thought this book was writen in a nice informal way and I enjoyed reading it. Useful as an over view of the different poultry it covers and it helped us deside what would be best to choose for our garden, but felt i needed a book with a bit more detail once I had made my mind up on chickens and ducks!
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Easy to read, handy reference guide for the novice chicken keeper. Gave me the confidence to go out and bring home my girls.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
a gift for a friend
The person I bought this for is delighted. It covers all the basics.
they are very happy with their new chickens and feel confident to look after them properly with this book
they are very happy with their new chickens and feel confident to look after them properly with this book
Published 3 months ago by Anne Clayton
3.0 out of 5 stars
handy book to have around
got two girls in the back garden and often use this book as a reference for keeping my hens healthy and safe
Published 5 months ago by Alice M
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Read
As a newcomer to Chicken keeping I found this book to be really informative. It does drift a bit to other poultry but thats what it says on the title so cant really complain. Read more
Published 8 months ago by M. Jones
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very useful book
I have found this a useful book as someone new to keeping poultry and was pleased to find that it covers birds other than chickens such as quail and ducks which, though covered in... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Am Galvin
5.0 out of 5 stars
back garden chickens and other poultry
this book is very informative and well written,whether you are new to chicken keeping or have been doing it a while.a very good read and very helpful. Read more
Published 10 months ago by k stevens
5.0 out of 5 stars
A real diamond in the rough.
A real diamond in the rough. This is a superb book for nayone starting off in both gardening and trying to be eco friendly. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Uncle Bubbles
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good starting point for a beginner
Very friendly tone and an easy read, I found the information in the book very easy to take in and understand particularly information about housing birds. Read more
Published 14 months ago by A. D. Lynskey
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant
I found this book to be a very useful guide, loaned it to a colleague who is also interested in keeping hens, who now tells me he has ordered his own copy.
Published 16 months ago by brodie
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