The Urban Hen

A practical guide to keeping poultry in a town or city

Paul Peacock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

172 Seiten

2009
How To Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-905862-27-6 (ISBN)

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The urban Hen is the perfect companion to for the city poultry keeper and shows how to maintain a happy, healthy garden or backyard flock in towns and cities everywhere.

Paul Peacock shows you how to: find the best poultry for the small garden and house them properly, feed your birds, tune in to their daily needs and enjoy your own eggs; avoid annoying the neighbours by showing that it is possible to keep poultry without attracting unwelcome pests; recognise healthy happy birds and learn their daily routine; recognise poorly hens; treat them or get help; and, incubate and care for fertilised eggs and raise chicks.

PAUL PEACOCK has himself kept chickenss - sometimes in small, urban spaces - and has written numerous books and articles on the subject. Paul owns the successful City Cottage online magazine, is a published expert on gardening and smallholding and advises a major city council on public beekeeping. Paul also writes for the Daily Mirror as Mr Digwell.

1. New to Chickens; 2. Anatomy of the Chicken; 3. Breeds; 4. Feeding Your Chickens; 5. Poultry Care; 6. Chicken Diseases; 7. Chicks - Making Your Own; 8. The Egg; 9. Getting Help;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.6.2009
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-905862-27-X / 190586227X
ISBN-13	978-1-905862-27-6 / 9781905862276
Zustand	Neuware