The Backyard Field Guide to Chickens
Chicken Breeds for Your Home Flock
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2016
Voyageur Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-4953-3 (ISBN)
Voyageur Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-4953-3 (ISBN)
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Searching for chickens that best fit your needs? The Backyard Field Guide to Chickens can help, with descriptions of each breed's qualities, temperament, average egg production, and more.
Fuelled by the local and organic food movements, as well as a sea change in local ordinances, backyard chicken keeping is booming. Anyone who's decided to join the new wave of chicken keepers knows that the poultry breeds available are dizzying in their variety. Calm your anxiety with this book - a guide for backyard chicken keepers in search of chickens that best fit their needs.
Each breed of chicken listed in the field guide is thoroughly described and is illustrated by colour photos. The book tells you all about the bird, detailing each breed's particular usefulness, adaptation to climate, coloration, number of eggs typically laid, foraging ability, temperament, and unique qualities. There are fun facts about varieties of chickens, as well as information about colour and comb varieties, rare breeds, classification, and hybrids.
Fuelled by the local and organic food movements, as well as a sea change in local ordinances, backyard chicken keeping is booming. Anyone who's decided to join the new wave of chicken keepers knows that the poultry breeds available are dizzying in their variety. Calm your anxiety with this book - a guide for backyard chicken keepers in search of chickens that best fit their needs.
Each breed of chicken listed in the field guide is thoroughly described and is illustrated by colour photos. The book tells you all about the bird, detailing each breed's particular usefulness, adaptation to climate, coloration, number of eggs typically laid, foraging ability, temperament, and unique qualities. There are fun facts about varieties of chickens, as well as information about colour and comb varieties, rare breeds, classification, and hybrids.
Christine Heinrichs is the author of How to Raise Chickens and How to Raise Poultry (both Voyageur Press, 2013) and has won many awards over the course of her 30-year writing career. She lives with her husband, chickens, and cat in Cambria, California.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2016 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 160 mm |
| Gewicht | 518 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung | |
| Veterinärmedizin ► Kleintier | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7603-4953-3 / 0760349533 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7603-4953-3 / 9780760349533 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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