The Chicken Health Handbook
A Complete Guide to Maximizing Flock Health and Dealing with Disease
Seiten
2016
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2nd edition
Storey Publishing LLC (Verlag)
978-1-61212-013-3 (ISBN)
Storey Publishing LLC (Verlag)
978-1-61212-013-3 (ISBN)
Healthy chickens are happy chickens. This one-of-a-kind reference book covers the health problems that plague chickens of all breeds and ages. Practical charts identify common symptoms and causes of infection, while an alphabetic listing of diseases provides advice on treatment. You’ll find helpful descriptions of troublesome ailments of all types, from poor egg production to crooked toe syndrome. Practical remedies and gentle preventative care measures will help your beloved flock stay happy, healthy, and safe.
Gail Damerow is the foremost authority on chickens in the United States, and her classic reference »The Chicken Health Handbook« (originally published in 1994) is now completely revised with up-to-the minute information and full-colour photography and illustrations.
This essential guide thoroughly addresses every aspect of chicken health, including good nutrition; bacterial, viral, and fungal diseases; parasites and worms; reproductive issues; immune health; metabolic dysfunctions; and much more, with detailed solutions for any health problem your chickens encounter.
This new second edition emphasizes natural and preventive approaches and covers issues specific to raising chickens in the city.
Gail Damerow is the foremost authority on chickens in the United States, and her classic reference »The Chicken Health Handbook« (originally published in 1994) is now completely revised with up-to-the minute information and full-colour photography and illustrations.
This essential guide thoroughly addresses every aspect of chicken health, including good nutrition; bacterial, viral, and fungal diseases; parasites and worms; reproductive issues; immune health; metabolic dysfunctions; and much more, with detailed solutions for any health problem your chickens encounter.
This new second edition emphasizes natural and preventive approaches and covers issues specific to raising chickens in the city.
Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen country skills how-to books, including the best-selling Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, and Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a regular contributor to Backyard Poultry and Countryside magazines. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard.
| Zusatzinfo | full colour photographs and illustrations |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | North Adams |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 177 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 1089 g |
| Einbandart | kartoniert |
| Themenwelt | Veterinärmedizin ► Allgemein ► Tierernährung / Tierhaltung / Tierzucht |
| Veterinärmedizin ► Großtier ► Geflügel | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| Schlagworte | Geflügel; Veterinärmedizin • glückliche Hühner • Huhn / Hühner; Veterinärmedizin • Hühneraufzucht • Hühner; Veterinärmedizin |
| ISBN-10 | 1-61212-013-X / 161212013X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-61212-013-3 / 9781612120133 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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