Keeping Chickens: The Essential Guide
by Jeremy Hobson, Celia Lewis
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Author: Celia Lewis, Jeremy HobsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-05
ISBN: 0715325671
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: David & Charles
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Book Review: Chickens are cool!
Summary: 5 Stars
This short but sweet book is loaded with great advice for the potential first-time chicken-owner, on a wide variety of topics, and has a lot of great pictures to go along with it. Unlike some other books about keeping animals that have historically been used only for food purposes, this book acknowledges and has information for every different type of chicken owner. Some people will be keeping them for meat, some for eggs, some for showing, and some as family pets. And indeed, the majority of the book focuses on the care and upkeep of chickens instead of how to kill a chicken and prepare the carcass. As someone who plans to keep chickens for non-meat reasons, I really appreciated that the reader was not talked to with the assumption that one is only keeping chickens for one reason. Topics covered include the many interesting and beautiful breeds of chicken, chicken anatomy, how to hatch eggs with or without a broody hen, whether one should get a rooster, what to feed them, various types of diseases and conditions they're prone to, what type of housing they need, the ins and outs of eggs, and breeding. There are also a lot of neat trivia tidbits, such as the classification of egg sizes, how the earlobe color usually determines the color of the eggs, and the role chickens and roosters have played in various religions. Concluding the book are chapters about interesting arts and crafts one can make with eggshells and feathers (such as earrings, greeting cards, Chinese lacquer, and cress heads) and some interesting recipes one can make with one's eggs (such as hazelnut meringue roulade and baked eggs in mushroom flans). Overall, it really paints a picture of chickens as a fun, interesting, neat, rewarding, worthwhile pet with so many different functions, whether one intends to keep them to show at 4-H shows, to have a year-round supply of eggs, as pets, or as meat.
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This is a solid, practical, everything-you-need-to-know guide to keeping chickens for people who are as interested in them as pets as they are in eggs and other poultry produce. It reveals how, as well as being useful, chickens are interesting and colourful characters that can enliven any garden. They become very tame and make good companions. It includes chapters on using feathers and eggs in art and craft projects, as well as delicious egg recipes. It fuses contemporary design, imaginative and appealing images and lively, authoritative text to ensure the widest possible interest.Birds Books
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