Raising Chickens

by Suzie Baldwin, Graham Page

Overview

Keeping chickens is fun, relaxing, and low maintenance, plus you have the added benefit of your own known source of fresh eggs. In Chickens, poultry breeders Graham Page and Suzie Baldwin offer a practical guide to everything the beginner needs to know, from whether to buy chicks or hens, what varieties to chose, how to tell if you're buying a healthy chicken and how to ensure it stays that way, to how many chickens you should keep, and what kind of coop to buy. They also answer all the questions commonly posed by first-time owners, from whether chickens ever fly away and how quickly they will start laying, to how to prevent them being attacked by foxes and what to do when they become unwell.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857835826
Publisher:	Octopus
Publication date:	07/02/2018
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	58 MB
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About the Author

Suzie Baldwin grew up on a farm in Devon and has kept chickens for more than 20 years. She runs regular beginners courses on keeping chickens at Golden Valley Poultry Farm.
Suzie Baldwin grew up on a farm in Devon and has kept chickens for more than 20 years. Her interest is in promoting the positive welfare of chickens, particularly now that they are increasingly part of the urban and semi-urban landscape. She now runs Hollywater Hens, a smallholding in Hampshire with over 300 hens, including a variety of organically reared hybrid and pure breed chickens. Suzie also holds regular courses on chicken keeping, many of which are for disadvantaged children, whose lives, research suggests, are enriched by looking after hens.