JACKIE FRENCH'S CHOOK BOOK

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New softcover book, 198 pages. Revised and expanded edition published 2010

Jackie French loves chooks:

There's nothing more beautiful than a mob of White Leghorns like sailing ships flying with the wind, comfortable Australorps in their fluffy black knickers dedicatedly sifting through the old tomato bed for insects and titbits, or a tribe of Isa Reds scratching under the lavender. There's no sound as domestic, either, as a mob of chooks clucking in the backyard. It gives you a feeling of safety and security.

Read this book and you'll love chooks too. You'll love to keep them, scratching about in your own backyard, and you'll love to eat them, prepared from one of the many mouth-watering chicken-and-egg recipes you'l find between in this great little book. This completely revised edition's sections on poultry keeping and management have been greatly updated and expanded, and are now illustrated with close to 100 cull corour photosgraphs.

Everything you want to know about chooks, from choosing and keeping them to breeding them and eating them and their eggs. Suggests a myriad of uses for chook by-products including feather mattresses, quill pens, soap, shampoo and fertilizer. Includes over 100 recipes and an extensive index.

Chapters include:

• I Love Chooks
• Choosing and Breeding Chooks
• Keeping Chooks
• Chook Safety, Health and Other Problems
• Chook Questions
• Chook Extras
• Eating Chooks
• Eating Eggs

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About the Author

Jacqueline Anne 'Jackie' French (born 1 December 1953) is an award-winning Australian author of children's fiction, and books on gardening. She was born in Sydney and grew up in Brisbane, but moved to the bush in her early twenties. She is a keen gardener and appeared on the TV series Burke's Backyard. She has written well over a hundred books. Jackie lives in New South Wales, near the small town of Braidwood at Araluen. She began writing when she was 30, in a desperate attempt to get enough money together to register her car. At the time, she was living in a tin shed with a black snake named Gladys and a wombat named Smudge. A hundred and thirty plus books later, she is still writing. She is one of Australia's most popular children's writers.

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Jackie French's Chook Book