Keeping Chickens 9th Edition: Practical Advice for Beginners
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Keeping Chickens 9th Edition: Practical Advice for Beginners

Practical Advice for Beginners (9th Edition)

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  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Keeping Chickens 9th Edition: Practical Advice for Beginners

Practical Advice for Beginners (9th Edition)

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About this book

Providing a practical and easy to follow guide, including covering the basics of poultry husbandry, this is an ideal book for beginners interested in keeping chickens. The authors are experienced smallholders and share their advice with the aim of keeping healthy, happy chickens. The physical and behavioural attributes of domestic chickens are discussed in detail, advice on laying hens, breeding and raising chicks, housing, and feeding. Nutrition and health maintenance are also covered, along with egg production, slaughter, collecting eggs and poultry meat products, and egg-based recipes. Keeping Chickens is highly illustrated and adapted from the bestselling German book in its 9th edition. Beate and Leopold Peitz are both agriculturalists with extensive production animal keeping experience. [Subject: Farm Life, Chicken Keeping, Agricultural Science]

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. 1 The Domestication and Spread of the Chicken
  8. 2 Chicken Breeds Suitable for Small-scale Keeping
  9. 3 Anatomy and Physiology of the Chicken
  10. 4 Behaviour of the Domestic Chicken
  11. 5 Keeping Laying Hens
  12. 6 Incubation
  13. 7 Rearing Chicks
  14. 8 Keeping Our Birds Healthy
  15. 9 Poultry Produce
  16. Appendix
  17. Index