Keeping Chickens - An Australian Guide (book)
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Keeping Chickens - An Australian Guide is a comprehensive guide to keeping chickens in the backyard. The book provides information on choosing which breed is best for you, information on how to construct or purchase poultry housing, how to care for your chickens and a section on how to successfully breed chickens.
Published in 2007 by Penguin Group Keeping Chickens...An Australian Guide (ISBN: 9780143006381) is a comprehensive 138 page book interspersed with useful diagrams. To order a copy (AU $29.95) please visit: CSIRO Publishing
Table of contents:
- Why keep chickens
- Common question answered
- Steps to keeping chickens
- Know your chickens
- The right chickens for me
- Housing your chickens
- Breeding chickens
- Chickens for show
- Resources and suppliers
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Index
See also
- General tips for small scale poultry production
- Building the Poultry Penthouse (book)
- Alternative poultry production systems
- Optimising liveability of free-range layers
