Chicken Books



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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 Tractor Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Soil

Chicken Tractor Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Soil

Chicken Tractor The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil. The all new Straw Bale Edition. by Andy Lee and Patricia Foreman, 351ppb. A chicken tractor is a portable pen that fits over your garden beds! Just set it wherever you need help in your garden. The chickens peck and scratch the soil to clean your beds, eat pest bugs and weed...
$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  $19.99

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Extra Extraordinary Chickens

Extra Extraordinary Chickens

The striking images in Extraordinary Chickens showed that "the world of chickens is a world of wonders" (New York Times Book Review). Now, in a follow-up to the extraordinarily successful first book from Stephen Green-Armytage, the photographer presents 61 breeds and 5 species, including 14 breeds not previously included in the first...
$24.95

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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 Author: Christine Heinrichs How to Raise Poultry grew out of my involvement with the Society for Preservation of Poultry Antiquities. My first book, How to Raise Chickens, focused entirely on the most common domestic fowl. SPPA does not limit its dedication to chickens, however. Waterfowl, including ducks, geese and swans,...
$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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Society for Preservation of Poultry SPPA Breeders Directory

Society for Preservation of Poultry SPPA Breeders Directory

Join the Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities! Membership includes the quarterly Bulletin, the liveliest writing on poultry in print, and the Breeders Directory. The Breeders Directory lists SPPA members, what they are raising and how to contact them to acquire stock. It's an invaluable reference for small flock owners....
$10.00

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Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens

?Everything you need to know about chickens, all in one easy-to-understand volume: Breed selcetion, health issues, care and maintenace, incubating, hatching, feed and shelter, egg and meat prodution, and more.ß Many photos and illustrations, tables and index.÷ ? Back Home " This is the best single book on chicken raising I have...
$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 Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Emus, Guinea Fowl, Ostriches, Partridges, Peafowl, Pheasants, Quails, Swans Carol Ekarius More than 128 birds strut their stuff across the pages of Storeys Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds, the ultimate primer for farmers and fanciers alike. Admire the handsome...
$24.95

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