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2010 American Poultry Association Standard of Perfection

2010 American Poultry Association Standard of Perfection

The 2010 Standard of perfections are in! I can not tell you how excited I am to be getting the new standards finally!  The American Poultry Association Standard of Perfection is official guide to all standard varieties recognized by the American Poultry Association. This book is a must have when exhibiting in Poultry Shows. $59.00 for the...
$59.00

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4-H Guide to Raising Chickens

4-H Guide to Raising Chickens

Description: This easy-to-follow, illustrated guide covers selecting a breed to caring for chicks, housing, fencing and feeding, preventing or treating illness and much more. 4-H Guide to Raising Chickens Raising chickens teaches more than animal husbandry. It’s a hands-on chance to learn the character and community-building principles and...
$18.99

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Barnyard in your Backyard

Barnyard in your Backyard

The perfect book for anyone who has ever dreamed of having that little place in the country, Barnyard in Your Backyard offers tried-and-true, expert advice on raising healthy, happy, productive farm animals: chickens, geese, ducks, rabbits, goats, sheep, and dairy cows. Each chapter focuses on a different animal, discussing the pros and cons of...
$24.95

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British Large Fowl

British Large Fowl

This book documents the 22 breeds that have been developed in Britain together with their history and most of their color variations. 92 color photographs in all.
$20.00

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Chicken Diseases

Chicken Diseases

Information included to help keep your flock in top shape and to understand what is going on if they do get sick. Diseases of all ages of poultry, from day-old to adult. Soft cover with 56 pages.
$6.99

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Chicken Health Handbook

Chicken Health Handbook

Chicken Health Handbook Tyler Danke, the owner of Purely Poultry, highly reccomends that every flock owner has a copy of this poultry health book on their bookshelf! It can help to prevent disease, manage it when and if poultry diseases do happen. Its also always nice to be able to help other poultry friends that are having trouble with diseases...
$19.95

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Chickens at Home

Chickens at Home

Chickens at home is one of the easiest books to follow on looking after chickens at home or bantams in your garden, orchard or smallholding. Looking after chickens at home explains every step, explained with daily and weekend routines, chapters on expenses, chicken housing, chicken hatching, chicken rearing, chicken diseases and chicken ailments,...
$20.00

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City Chicks Laying Hens Garden Helpers, Composters, Local Food

City Chicks Laying Hens Garden Helpers, Composters, Local Food

CITY CHICKS: Keeping Micro-flocks of Laying Hens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local Food Suppliers, by Patricia Foreman 460 ppb The local foods movement is mushrooming and chickens have become its mascot. City Chicks brings fresh, innovative and new information about keeping backyard flocks of urban chickens. City Chicks...
$22.50

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Day Range Poultry

Day Range Poultry

DAY RANGE POULTRY: Every Chicken Owner's Guide to Grazing Gardens and Improving Pastures, including the management of breeder flocks, egg handling, incubating, hatchery management, building shelters, marketing, advertising, soils regeneration, compost creation, processing poultry humanely and efficiently, and much, much more! by Andy Lee and...
$22.00

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Extraordinary Chickens

Extraordinary Chickens

Wow! If you thought chickens were scrawny brown things, pecking around in the dirt you won't believe your eyes when you see what's between the covers of this fun-sized, all-colour book on chickens. Chickens with bouffant hairdos, chickens with "fur", chickens that look as if they have been drawn by animators on acid. Long legs,...
$24.95

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How to Raise Chickens

How to Raise Chickens

How to Raise Chickens: Everything You Need to Know Author: Christine Heinrichs Whichever comes first for you, the chicken or the egg, this book shows you what to do next. In this hands-on, easy-to-use guidebook, longtime chicken breeder and poultry expert Christine Heinrichs tells you everything you need to know to raise chickens in your...
$19.95

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How to Raise Poultry

How to Raise Poultry

How to Raise Poultry by Christine Heinrichs Many people who begin with raising a few chickens for eggs become interested in other types of poultry. Fancy a few ducks floating on your pond, but have no idea whether they might stick around? Are you looking for a way to earn a little money and thinking that poultry keeping might be a good way to go...
$19.95

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Keep Chickens!

Keep Chickens!

Keep Chickens! Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and Other Small Spaces Barbara Kilarski, a woman with a passion for poultry, provides detailed information every aspiring chickenkeeper needs to know in this handbook that is as practical and encouraging as it is witty and entertaining. Join the urban and suburban chicken-farming boomlet and...
$16.95

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Keeping Pet Chickens

Keeping Pet Chickens

Keeping pet chickens is a wonderful past time. This 64 page poultry book will help you with how to raise pet chickens. It is very basic and is expected to be a primer to get your started with raising pet chickens. Chickens make great pets because they can be friendly if you raise them from baby chicks and play with them often. What other pets can...
$9.99

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Modern Free Range

Modern Free Range

A practical guide for the small farmer on free range egg production and sales. There are chapters on integration with other farming interests, costs of 100 bird units, marketing and regulations, types of housing, fencing, feeding, lighting, general management, diseases and ailments.
$18.00

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Pocketful of Poultry

Pocketful of Poultry

Pocketful of Poultry Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks & Geese by Carol Ekarius Pecking, clucking, posing, preening. Whatever they happen to be doing, barnyard birds have a special knack for making us smile. Enjoy their charm and discover interesting facts about your favorite chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese in this fun and informative handbook. The...
$10.95

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Raising Chickens for Dummies

Raising Chickens for Dummies

Raising Chickens for Dummies The "For Dummies" franchise has long been known as a starting point for anyone getting into something new. Raising Chickens for Dummies provides a starting point for people interested in keeping a small flock, but it goes farther and offers plenty for the veteran poultry person as well. This book is 408 pages...
$19.99

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Sexing All Fowl

Sexing All Fowl

This book will teach you how to sex chickens and gamebirds such as partridge, pheasants, grouse, pigeons, parrots, ostriches, and caged birds. The book by Loyl Stromberg is 96 pages long 6" x 9". Softcover. The illustrations show how to sex birds. It was originally written in 1977 and was revised in 2002. To write the book they used 70...
$8.95

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Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow is a classic chicken handbook, with a well-deserved space on many flock keepers' shelves. Just about any question that may arise about raising chickens is at least touched upon in this comprehensive guide. The book is comprised of 14 chapters. The first, "Choosing a Breed,"...
$18.95

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Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds

Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds

Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds Carol Ekarius packs an unbelievable amount of information into a beautifully designed book in Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds. Chickens breeds to swans and everything in between, this book offers breed information, history, gorgeous photographs and much more. Whether you are...
$24.95

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