Raising Chickens For Eggs and Meat

The fastest growing hobby right now according to research and press releases isn't, as you may think, new age computer games involving 'dance mats' and telly top web cams, it is in fact the technology free pastime of urban chicken keeping! Whether you just fancy your breakfast eggs fresh from the nest box or want to savour a most succulent and tasty roast chicken dinner, made all the more enjoyable because you know that the bird had a good life, this realistic and honest no-nonsense guide will help you to achieve both. Enjoy eggs both fresher and tastier than any you can buy in the supermarket and truly free range table birds to feed your family.

Raising Chickens covers all aspects of looking after your chickens, from the joys of seeing your first chicks hatch, caring for them and helping them develop into happy and healthy birds, to finally seeing them safely and humanely dispatched if desired. It intentionally avoids the rose tinted image of keeping chickens and tells it 'how it is,' for example, how to introduce them to the family pet, and how to keep them safe from foxes and vermin. This book also covers illness and death and culling and butchering: making sure that it is realistic and ensuring that any prospective chicken keepers are fully aware of their responsibilities to their birds.

About the Author For several years Mike and Sue Woolnough have raised their own chickens for eggs and meat in both their garden and on allotments as part of their striving to be as self-sufficient as possible. Mike is a regular contributor to various magazines including Home Farmer and Practical Poultry and lives in Suffolk.

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