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(Paperback)

By: Mike Hatcher

ISBN: 9781504800327
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2015
Publisher: IMM Lifestyle Books
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(Paperback)

By: Arthur Parkinson

ISBN: 9780241573662
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)

By: Arthur Parkinson

ISBN: 9780241573655
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Gail Damerow

ISBN: 9781612120140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 15th January 2013
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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Explains exactly how to hatch healthy baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets, addressing everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to ensuring proper set-up and sanitary conditions, understanding embryo development, and feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder.


(Paperback)

By: Nicolas Brasch

ISBN: 9780143006381
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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The ultimate guide to keeping chickens in your backyard. The more obvious rewards of chicken ownership - like delicious fresh eggs daily and fabulous cost-free fertiliser - are well known. Chickens even help keep the number of pest insects in your garden.


(Paperback)

By: Dalia Monterroso

ISBN: 9781635864779
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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"Author Dalia Monterroso conveys the basics of chicken keeping, with an emphasis on low-cost, natural practices in this entry-level guide designed to empower anyone who's always wanted to keep chickens. Readers will learn how to plan their flock, how to raise baby chicks, what to look for in a chicken coop, how to keep chickens healthy naturally, and more"--


(Paperback)

By: Carol Ekarius

ISBN: 9781612126920
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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Poultry Breeds is a fresh field guide of feathered friends with stunning photos highlighting the beauty and unique attributes of 104 chicken, duck, goose, and turkey breeds. Each profile outlines the bird's history, physical characteristics, and common uses, with specially noted fun facts sprinkled throughout.


(Paperback)

By: Kristine Ellis

ISBN: 9780760388457
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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Get started raising your own ducks with this approachable guide by duck-fluencer Kristine Ellis (@dunkin.ducks).


(Paperback, 2nd Edition)

By: Dave Holderread

ISBN: 9781603426923
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2011
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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A guide to raising ducks that provides information for those who want to keep ducks. It covers such topics as: choosing the right breed, including rare breeds and hybrid ducks; breeding and rearing practices; feeding; and, butchering. It includes a comprehensive resource section for both the novice and the veteran farmer.


(Paperback)

By: Carol Ekarius

ISBN: 9781580176675
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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Farmers and fanciers keep an astonishing variety of poultry breeds and these birds provide meat and eggs to nourish us and feathers to keep us warm. Their quirky personalities and charming good looks make them farnyard favourites. This work presents, breed by breed, more than 120 farnyard fowl - from chickens and turkeys to emus and pheasants.


(Paperback, 3rd edition)

By: Glenys O'Byrne

ISBN: 9780958233217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1988
Publisher: Fraser Books
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(Hardback)

By: Jane Eastoe

ISBN: 9781843403586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Chickens are back in style with a vengeance: poultry breeders are struggling to cope with the increase in demand and gardens resound to the contented cluck of chickens.


(Paperback)

By: Frank Hyman

ISBN: 9781612129945
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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Take more pleasure in owning a backyard flock with low-cost, imaginative projects that reduce chores, solve common problems, and benefit chickens and chicken-keepers alike, from a predator-proof chicken run to self-filling waterer, automatic coop doors, and more.


(Paperback)

By: Lissa Lucas

ISBN: 9781623360016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Rodale Press Inc.
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Sensible advice and savvy answers for raising backyard chickens.


(Paperback)

By: Maryn McKenna

ISBN: 9781426219627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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(Paperback)

By: Glenn Drowns

ISBN: 9781612125299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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Expert Glenn Drowns offers all the information and guidance you need to successfully exhibit your poultry at fairs and expositions. Learn how to select the best breeds and birds for exhibition and how to raise them with the proper diet, health care, and handling so that they are at their best by showtime.


(Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

By: Don Schrider

ISBN: 9781612121499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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Covers a wide range of breeds, humane raising practices, pastured feeding methods, organic certification standards, and on-farm processing guidelines.


(Paperback)

By: Food Regulation Standing Committee

ISBN: 9780643094543
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Australian Biological Resources Study
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(Paperback)

By: Michelle Marine

ISBN: 9781510751040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: H. Lee Schwanz

ISBN: 9781629142043
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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A small flock of poultry can supply all of the eggs your family needs during the year. And, after your hens have completed their egg-laying days, there will be meat for barbecuing or roasting.


(Paperback)

By: J C Jeremy Hobson

ISBN: 9781847971326
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
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Topics covered include: selecting the right breeds housing, grass runs and ponds feeding, breeding, hatching and rearing health and hygiene showing and exhibiting ornamental waterfowl


(Paperback)

By: Benjamin Crosby

ISBN: 9781847973375
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
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Suitable for both novice and experienced poultry-keeper alike, this book identifies the basic British poultry breeds and assesses the qualities of each, explaining their attributes to help hobbyists understand which breeds are most suited to their needs.