Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Duck, Geese & Turkeys

Fred Hams (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2011
Lorenz Books (Verlag)
978-0-7548-2352-0 (ISBN)

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SEE ISBN 9780754833666 for newer available edition of this book. A practical home guide to keeping poultry in the garden: rearing, housing, breeding, maintaining health and exhibiting, with step-by-step techniques and over 650 colour photographs.

SEE ISBN 9780754833666 for newer available edition of this book. This comprehensive and practical guide provides all the information that you need in order to start keeping poultry. A buyer's guide shows you what features to look for in healthy poultry. Essential information is provided on feeding, hygiene, treating ailments, and good husbandry. If you are interested in keeping a few hens in the back garden, selling eggs for profit, breeding birds for sale or exhibiting pure breeds, this authoritative guide by a leading and engaging expert, is the perfect book for you.

Fred Hams started his own poultry farm in 1960. Later, he was employed by Wye Agricultural College as a poultry technician and by an environmental health department as a poultry meat inspector. Fred has served on the Ministry of Agriculture's Genetic Resources committee and is a founding member of the Rare Poultry Society. He helped start the poultry fanciers magazine Fancy Fowl, and since 2004 has served as consultant to the best-selling Practical Poultry magazine.

Zusatzinfo	700 colour photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-7548-2352-0 / 0754823520
ISBN-13	978-0-7548-2352-0 / 9780754823520
Zustand	Neuware