A Family Guide To Keeping Chickens : How to choose and care for your first chickens /: How to choose and care for your first chickens. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anne Perdeaux.
• Authors: Perdeaux, Anne
• Contents: Cover; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Before Your Chickens Come Home to Roost: Planning for Your First Chickens; Can You Keep Chickens?; Finding Out about Chickens; Chickens as Pets; Key Points; Kids' Corner; 2. What Really Goes On at a Hen Party? Understanding Chicken Behaviour; The Intelligent Chicken; Establishing the Pecking Order; Scratching and Foraging; The Importance of Dust-Bathing; Laying Eggs; What Happens at Bedtime?; Providing Shade and Shelter; How Do Chickens Get On with Humans?; Key Points; Kids' Corner. 3. Feathering the Nest: Where and How Will Your Chickens Live?Keeping Chickens in a Small Garden; Keeping Chickens in a Medium-Sized Garden; Keeping Chickens in a Large Garden or Smallholding; Considering How Many Chickens You Can Accommodate; Positioning the Chicken House; Different Types of Chicken Housing; What to Look for When Buying Chicken Housing; Scenarios of Keeping Chickens . . .; Key Points; Kids' Corner; 4. Birds of a Feather: Choosing the Right Chickens for the Job; Deciding Between Pure-Breeds and Hybrids; Hybrid Laying Hens; Selecting Your Hybrids; Pure-Breed Chickens. Picking Pure-BreedsFinding Out More; Key Points; Kids' Corner; 5. Buying the Eggstras: What Else Will You Need?; Choosing a Poultry Feeder; Choosing a Poultry Drinker; Storing Feed; Providing a Dust-Bath; Giving Chickens Some Fun in their Run; Selecting Bedding; Keeping Things Clean; Putting Together a First Aid Kit; Using Automated Equipment; Key Points; Kids' Corner; 6. Chicken Feed: Organizing the Daily Rations; Feeding Scraps; Buying Feed; Supplying Grit; Providing Green Food and Grass; Feeding Grain; Adding Supplements; Giving Treats and Extras; Checking the Drinking Water. Feeding ChickensAvoiding Poisonous Plants; Key Points; Kids' Corner; 7. How Do You Cock-a-Doodle-Doo? Buying Your Chickens and Introducing Them to Their New Home; Deciding How Many to Buy; Mixing Different Breeds; Choosing to Buy Chickens, Chicks or Eggs; Chicken Shopping; Bringing Your Chickens Home; Settling Your Chickens in Their New Home; Adding to Your Flock; Key Points; Kids' Corner; 8. Doing the Hen-Housework: Caring for Your Chickens; Establishing a Daily Routine; Doing the Weekly Chores; Remembering Other Tasks; Arranging Cover for Holidays; Key Points; Kids' Corner. 9. Outfoxing the Fox: PredatorsThe Fox; The Badger; Mink and Otters; Stoats, Weasels, Polecats, Ferrets and Pine Martens; Birds of Prey; Crows, Magpies, Jackdaws and Rooks; Rats and Squirrels; Trapping Responsibly; Domestic Cats and Dogs; Humans; Keeping Your Chickens Safe; Kids' Corner; 10. You Can't Make an Omelette Without Breaking Eggs: Eggs and What to Do with Them; Creating the Wonderful Egg; Finding Alien Eggs; Where Are the Eggs?; Eggs-Travaganza! Dealing With All the Eggs; Making Use of Your Eggs; Key Points; Kids' Corner; 11. In Fine Feather: Dealing with Parasites and Ailments.
• Publisher Details: London : How To Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 636.5; Chickens; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry; Chickens; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845285548; 1845285549
• ISSNs: 7299-1240
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.