This is a practical and comprehensive everything-you-need-to-know guide to chicken breeds for anyone who keeps chickens, is considering keeping chickens or aspires to keep chickens. Comprehensive content features over 70 breeds which reveals how, as well as being useful, chickens are interesting and colourful characters. This guide includes essential practical information on feeding, housing and welfare as well as easy-to-use keys to selecting the most suitable breeds. Chickens make great pets - they are low maintenance living on the scraps that you throw away, and are easy-going, plus they thrive in small urban areas and backyards.
- ISBN10 0715333100
- ISBN13 9780715333105
- Publish Date 25 September 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint David & Charles
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English