Whether you want to keep hens as pets who lay a few eggs or are aiming to end up with a larger flock and sell eggs at your gate, it is a very rewarding pastime.
This book is an expanded version of the notes I hand out to students who come on my Beginners Chicken Keeping course. I've kept chickens since childhood in a variety of settings - on a smallholding and in my back garden, selling eggs at the local farmers market and breeding birds for sale. I've been teaching on the subject for nearly a decade.
Chicken Keeping for Beginners gives a thorough overview of how to get the best out of your hens, with a look at choosing birds, housing, feeding and basic health-care.
Each chapter is summarised at the end with a handy quick-reference 'Essentials' paragraph.
A perfect introduction if you are thinking about keeping chickens.
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Cheryl runs courses on poultry-keeping for both beginners and the more experienced. She has kept chickens in both a smallholding and a back-garden setting over the last forty years. She has a Further Education Teaching Certificate and used to teach in the Community Education Service.
Because of family considerations, she doesn't have as many birds as she used to, but she still keeps Barnevelders and Salmon Faverolles, which are dual-purpose utility birds that lay dark brown and pinkish eggs respectively. She also continue to breed bantam Millefleur Pekins and quail-coloured Barbu d’Anvers.
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