Keeping Chickens: Choosing, Nurturing & Harvests

by Liz Wright, Tracey Smith (Foreword)

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 lay, their affect on the local ecosystem and protection from foxes.

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2011

Reviews

[Tara Ravi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything you wanted to know about keeping chickens, and more.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful for beginners, but some of the info not so relevant to NZ.

[Zakgirl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great little book for finding out just about anything to do with chickens: How to keep chickens, choose the right ones and collecting and using eggs. It also has hints and tips for cooking eggs and titbits of information. Suitable for children too as it is written in simple English. A great little book to grab and look up things as you need.

[Wendy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book for beginners or those thinking of getting a small flock. Includes all care and keeping of these breakfast making birds!

[Caroline Curran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book for starting out very helpful

[4C · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book about keeping chickens because its great for teaching starters what breed to get first and how to look after them i highly recommend this book because its very helpful. :D