Discusses what features to look for when purchasing poultry and provides information on feeding, hygiene, treating illness, and good husbandry practices.

An expert manual on keeping poultry in the garden: rearing, housing, breeding and maintaining health, including how to build your own poultry house.

All the information you need in order to start keeping poultry: what features to look for, good poultry husbandry, and a beautifully illustrated guide to poultry breeds of the world.

This special re-print edition of the Hugh Piper's book "Poultry A Practical Guide to Choice, Breeding, Rearing and Management of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea Fowl, Ducks and Geese for Profit and Exhibition" is a complete guide to keeping chickens and other poultry. Written in 1873, this classic text contains information on raising chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks and geese, be it for eggs, meat, exhibition or for pleasure. Chapters include The Fowl House, The Fowl Yard, Food, Eggs, The Sitting Hen, Rearing, Stock Breeding and Poultry Shows. Also included are lengthy sections on Cochins, Brahmas, Malays, Game Fowl, Dorkings, Hamburgs, Polish, Bantams and other chicken breeds, as well as Turkeys, Guinea Fowl, Ducks and Geese. Illustrated with vintage colored plates. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

Covering 65 domestic breeds of ducks, geese, guineafowl, quail, turkeys and peafowl, the book gives an insight into the individual personalities and attributes of each kind of bird. With just a little land and available water, you can raise a variety of domestic fowl, from friendly ducks and characterful geese to guineafowl, dainty quail, placid turkeys or even peafowl. Illustrated with the author's charming watercolour paintings, this book is packed with practical tips on keeping domestic fowl and selecting the right breed for your circumstances. The breed profiles are written in engaging text and include the history and place of origin, colour combinations, differences between male and female birds, the appearance of hatchlings and the numbers of eggs to expect. As well as selecting an appropriate breed, you need to consider your neighbours, the kinds of bird you can and should keep, whether you want them for eggs or as pets, and whether you want to breed them. The book offers helpful advice on all these issues and also on housing, the provision of water, feeding and the noise and impact your birds will have, as well as preventing and treating common ailments. Whether you are starting out as a smallholder, are interested in raising a few ducks or geese in a suburban or rural setting, or are simply a devotee of domestic fowl there is plenty to captivate you in this book.

Your guide to keeping chickens, turkeys, and ducks—from choosing a coop that will protect from predators to marketing eggs and so much in between! This is a comprehensive and beautiful guide for anyone raising chickens, ducks, or turkeys. Written in charming prose from the perspective of an organic farmer, Jennifer Megyesi discusses all the basic details of raising the birds—general biology, health, food, choosing breeds, and so on—and she cuts through the smoke to identify what terms like "organic," "free‑range," and so on really mean for poultry farmers and consumers. Topics include: Housing chickens, turkeys, and ducks Feeding your poultry Keeping poultry for eggs Keeping poultry for meat Common illnesses and diseases And more! No poultry book would be complete without information on how to show chickens and other fowl for prizes, and this is no different, but The Joy of Keeping Chickens, Ducks, and Turkeys also stresses the importance of self‑sustainability and organic living, and the satisfaction of keeping heirloom breeds. Readers will appreciate the comprehensive nature of this readable, informative guide, and Megyesi's enthusiasm about keeping domestic fowl. Coupled with Geoff Hansen's gorgeous full‑color photographs, this text makes for an instant classic in the category.

More than 128 birds strut their stuff across the pages of this definitive primer for intrepid poultry farmers and feather fanciers alike. From the Manx Rumpy to the Redcap and the Ancona duck to his Aylesbury cousin, each breed is profiled with a brief history, detailed descriptions of identifying characteristics, and colorful photography. Comprehensive and fun, Storey’s Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds celebrates the personalities and charming good looks of North America’s quirkiest barnyard birds and waterfowl.