Solitary chicken - need advice

[Fur 'n' Feathers]

Fur is going to buy me an all-emcompassing encyclopaedic chicken manual/book for Christmas. The problem is does this book exist and what is it called?

 

Any ideas, recommendations from you very wise & resourceful people?

Edited October 15, 2009 by Guest

[Willow]

There is a chicken encyclopedia @ http://www.omlet.co.uk/shop/shop.php?cat=Books&sub=Chicken&product_id=436&sort=popularity&start=10.

 

I have a copy and it is thorough. However I find if I want to know anything about chickens I always go to the forum not my copy of this book (and this is speaking as someone whose response to anything I don't know much about is to buy a book and read it to find out more )

[Fur 'n' Feathers]

Thanks Patricia. You're absolutely right that the forum is an enormous resource.

 

I also love books (no !) and would like one that I can thumb through, look at breeds and various chicken related issues at my leisure. What is in your recommendation?

 

Feathers

Edited October 8, 2009 by Guest

[Fur 'n' Feathers]

I forgot, I'd also be interested in health and breeds. In particular hybrid breeds as I don't seem to be able to find anything on these.

[Willow]

I think it is a good book but I use it less than I expected to. (BTW I see it is £5.99 on Amazon at the moment ) It has lots and lots of breeds listed. I would suggest it as part of your library.

 

I find books by Katie Thear hard work to read.

 

I bought Keeping Pet Chickens by Johannes when I started and it's a lovely little book for beginners. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone considering keeping chickens, but it's too simple if you've been keeping chickens for a while, (although diagrams of each part of the anatomy may still be useful).

 

I ordered 'The right way to keep Chickens' through The Book People and it should arrive today. I'll let you know what I think.

[Fur 'n' Feathers]

I ordered 'The right way to keep Chickens' through The Book People and it should arrive today. I'll let you know what I think.

 

We've got this book and it's quite a handy guide. Lots of illustrations in the form of drawings. No photos though (gosh, I sound like a big kid )

[Jools]

This is a really nice book - lots of information, nicely laid out, easy to read and piccies too

[Fur 'n' Feathers]

This is a really nice book - lots of information, nicely laid out, easy to read and piccies too

 

Mmmmhh! This looks more than a little interesting!

 

Feathers

[kitchens]

Francine Raymond's books are always lovely

[laurmurf]

Victoria Roberts book Diseases of Free range Poultry is very well thumbed on my shelf.... but then so is the chicken-porn that is David Scrivener's book 'Rare Chicken Breeds'

[Chook n Boo Mum]

I ordered 'The right way to keep Chickens' through The Book People and it should arrive today. I'll let you know what I think.

 

I've just gone on to the BP site, typed in "the right way to keep chickens" and in the list which the system flagged up is (amongst other unrelated things ) a set of Hannah Montana books ....well they do have "keep" in the blurb

 

I could well be going on & placing an order.......but not HM !!!!

 

Sha x

[Valkyrie]

HM? Garghhhh, not HM!!! I'm fed up with HM - and DD's 17! But I rather like the look of Jools's book. Hmmmmmmmm

[laurmurf]

Choosing and Keeping Chickens: Chris Graham is a fab book. Chris Graham is the editor of Practical Poultry so lots of good evidence for his statements too!

[Sam Palmer]

I got Hen Keeping by Mike Hatcher from the Book People (£2.99) yesterday. I've only flicked through it so far, but it 's well laid out and has really nice illustrations.

I was also tempted into buying Super-Cute Crochet (£4.99) even though I've never got the hang of crochet, being left handed! It's got the patterns to make a lovely family of eggs, hens and chicks called the Buff-Orpington's in it. They really are cute!

[Fur 'n' Feathers]

What about this one? Found it on a forum & had a look on Amazon:

 

The Big Book of Garden Hens (Hardcover)

by Francine Raymond (Author)

[Jools]

If I remember rightly, that one is great if you mainly want to look at pictures, but it's not all that informative. I'd check if I could, but I'm pretty sure it went FTGH to someone on here.