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Starting with Chickens (Starting with ...) by: Katie Thear List Price: £6.95 Vegetarian Books Price: £6.49 You Save: £0.46 ( 7%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 590 EAN: 9780906137277 ISBN: 0906137276 Label: Broad Leys Publishing Limited Manufacturer: Broad Leys Publishing Limited Number Of Pages: 96 Publication Date: 1999-04 Publisher: Broad Leys Publishing Limited Studio: Broad Leys Publishing Limited Sales Rank: 3576 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Basic information for beginners but some stuffing and vague about important detail in partsA standard work often provided in starter kits and it covers the basics in a simple easy to read fashion. Katie Thear is an experienced keeper and she includes some useful tips she's picked up from her own experiences. However I find the subject poorly researched and the information rather sketchy in places and lacking in consistency. It's rather like she has written it just from her own knowledge and experiences only. Some areas she dwells on in uneccessary detail for beginners needs while others which need a more detailed explaination are just skimmed over. There's also some uneccessary padding with brief chapters on showing and breeding which aren't of much interest to beginners and don't contain enough detail to enable anyone to get ... Read More: Rating: - Good info but few colour picsThis book has a fair amount of good information but disapointingly it has mostly black and white pictures - which seems very old fashioned these days. It has a large section on purebreeds which I think could've been reduced in order to make way for more of the useful information on care and/or health. Rating: - Heritage breeds not mentionedThis book is okay and gives a good amount of information. However, it would have been good to mention that there are so-called heritage chicken in most countries. These chicken breeds are endangered and many countries have special programs of conserving them. It is, of course, nice to have dozens of fancy chicken breeds to choose from but it would be a good thing to remind people that own, national, culturally and historically important heritage breeds should always be the priority. Also, those are the chicken breeds that are most accustomed to local climate. For example, in Scandinavian area, there are many breeds that survive in harsh conditions and like to go out even in the snow. It is of course understandable that a small book cannot review ... Read More: Rating: - Great starter bookVery helpful book if you're thinking of keeping chooks in your back garden, all basic information you'll need, I found though that a lot of space was given over to the different breeds which could have been used for more details on looking after chickens, but would recommend it to anyone. Rating:  - A great book & British too!There are a lot of great books out there for beginners, but most of them are American, so the resources pages are not helpful to those of us starting out in the UK. This book is published by Broad Leys, who are a small independent British publishers specialising in books for smallholders, homesteaders, poultry keepers and organic gardeners. Exactly what I was looking for! |
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