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'The bird section summarises just about everything you need to know concerning the day-to-day management, health and welfare of a small, domestic flock of laying hens... The book contains a wealth of solid, practical information, and the period illustrations are just wonderful... Despite its age, it remains a great reference source' --Poultry Farmer
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First issued in 1941, when the national crisis made it essential for every scrap of kitchen waste and spare time to be used for increasing the nation's food resources, this book enabled the meagre official wartime rations to be supplemented in thousands of homes by a regular supply of eggs and meat, at a minimum of trouble and expense.
It now reappears, in response to many requests, to play its part in the hardly less urgent food-production drive of peacetime. Everything that the small-scale raiser of rabbits or of poultry, whether for egg-production or for table use, needs to know is here: buying, housing, feeding, breeding, diseases, are all fully dealt with by experts, the instructions being given in simple and practical language for the beginner.
Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps was originally reissued after the war, in 1949. Here it is once again, a facsimilie edition with all the delightful original illustrations and advice to keep your chickens and rabbits happy, whether they be in a city garden or roaming in a farm yard.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An informative books with good tips on everything you,d need to know about looking after hens and/or rabbits.All aspects of the hens welfare is covered from types of housing through to illnesses and dust bathes, all in a language that even someone new to the hobbie can understand. Gets my vote.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Very good little book with a wealth of information that is very useful for those of us who are only keeping one or 2 hens and also have a few bunnies (even if not for the pot!) who can benefit from the advice therein.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Excellent little book for new hen keeper! Just loved reading it and gleaned a lot of useful information from it. Also amusing to look at all the interesting tips within it, and the way in which it is written. A real gem!
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Well worth a read
I started keeping poultry after a 15 year gap. After searching the web for equipment this book kept coming up. So I bought it. Read more
Published 18 days ago by Paul
wartime efficiency and animals for the pot
this book is a delight from start to finish written at a time when the nation faced invasion and occupation when every one no matter how humble or grand was expected to do their... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Timothy Wakefield
Great for all would be battery farmers :-(
The worth of this book might well depend on why you are buying it. If like me, you were after some guidance on keeping poultry at home in a humane fashion, you might want to look... Read more
Published on 8 Aug 2009 by Dr. Bates
Un-PC
Packed with useful information, but the best bit is the style and tone of this book. Written in a time before H&S and political correctness, this book pulls no punches. Read more
Published on 26 Jun 2009 by K. G. Worrall
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