Free-range Poultry - 3rd Edition

Authors: Katie Thear
A practical and comprehensive guide to free- range poultry-keeping, whether commercial or small scale.

Includes advice on which birds, housing, feeding, rearing, breeding and care, egg production, table bird production, legislation, selling and welfare. Previously published by Farming Press, and a classic.
77 colour pictures

Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2002
Binding: Hardback
Extent: 181 pp.
ISBN: 1 873580 59 2

Book Contents

• Introduction
• Key Questions
• About the Chicken
• Breeds
• Housing the Small Flock
• Housing the Large Flock
• Land Management
• Feeding
• Poultry Management
• Eggs
• Table Birds
• Breeding and Rearing
• Showing
• Marketing
• Common Problems and Diseases
• Appendices
• Index