CHICKENS

A step-by-step guide to choosing and keeping hens

by LAURA BRYANT

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New softcover book, 144 pages, published 2011. Measures 22 x 15cm.

More and more people are enjoying the benefits of keeping poultry, and chickens are perhaps the most rewarding of all. This book provides a practical guide to chicken husbandry, from hatching your first chicks to cooking with produce that you know has come from happy, free-range birds.

Satisfying and rewarding, keeping poultry can be the perfect hobby, and it is no longer the sole preserve of those who live in the countryside. A small piece of garden is al you need - even in the inner city. This book provides expert advice on all the important tasks required to keep your chickens happy and healthy, ensuring that you have access to fresher produce than any that the supermarket can provide.

There are clear step-by-step instructions on how to make your own incubator and chicken coop, as well as advice on introducing a cockerel to the flock Plus information on broody hens, dealing with disease and much, much more.

Chapters include:

• Introduction
• Getting started
• Starting with a fertilised egg
• Your new chick
• Your adolescent hen
• Your first layers
• Caring for your layers
• A healthy flock
• Your first edible eggs
• Recipes using eggs
• Breeding
• Culling and preparing
• Chicken recipes
• Glossary and Index

About the author

Laura Bryant has kept chickens in her back garden for 10 years. She is an author who has written extensively on self0sufficiency and keeping chickens. As well as eight hens, her East Sussex garden is also home to four ducks and three geese.

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Chickens: A step-by-step guide to choosing and keeping hens by Laura Bryant