Doing Bird

by Martin Gurdon

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Meet the Flockers -a soap opera of love, life and eggs


After fourteen years of garden chicken keeping Martin Gurdon thought adding some ducks and doves to his flock would be harmless fun. He didn't realise what he was letting himself in for.
Garden chicken and bird keeping has never been more popular, there are plenty of practical books that show you how, but this one reveals the often-bizarre, sometimes moving but always hilarious reality.

Charting the seasonal highs and lows in a year of an amateur domestic bird owner and his flock, Doing Bird introduces you to world filled with ducks who think they're chickens, a hen called Ann Summers, invading foxes, rabbits and builders, vast vet bills, doves needing parenting classes and Bombay, the drake with an unrequited love for Bella the chicken.

This is a fowl story of a man, a woman and a load of feathery trouble.

  • ISBN10 1780333986
  • ISBN13 9781780333984
  • Publish Date 4 April 2013 (first published 19 March 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Constable
  • Edition Digital original
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 272
  • Language English