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Backyard Poultry - Naturally
Alanna Moore 2004 New Edition (AUS)
An excellent resource, both entertaining and informative, providing all the information needed to raise healthy poultry without using harmful chemicals. It covers breeds, housing, breeding, feeding, herbal medicines and permaculture and poultry. 151 pp

BB100

The Contented Chook
practical tips and inspirational ideas for keeping your hens happy
ABC Gardening Australia Magazine 2012 (AUS)
Developed around readers' responses to a 'show us your chook pen' competition, this inspiring book showcases over 60 'poultry palaces' from all around Australia. Innovative use of low-cost and recycled materials has resulted in beautiful, quirky and practical homes for hens. Enjoy over 200 photos of chook pens built from water tanks, bunk beds, railway tracks, a garden swing, straw bales, corrugated iron, reclaimed timber and more. There are some amazing ideas to keep chooks happy, healthy and safe - I particularly liked the automatic door with a daylight sensor! Josh Byrne provides step-by-step instructions for building a chook pen and a chicken tractor; Megg Miller gives advice on hygiene and ventilation as well as security from predators in your poultry pen design and there are some 'eggcellent' recipes from chef Matthew Evans. Another excellent feature is a chook-keeping calendar - what to do daily, weekly, monthly and seasonally for your flock. You'll find easy to follow recommendations on feeding your flock as well as a very handy cost estimator for those starting out as chook keepers. And if you're at a loss for names for your girls, lists of those are provided too! A great book of all things chooky. 272pp

BC148

Jackie French's Chook Book
Completely revised and expanded edition 2010 (AUS)
From the popular radio and TV gardening personality, author and Earth Garden columnist comes this great all-round handbook on keeping chickens. Jackie French loves chooks and knows a lot about them. In this handy book, she covers just about everything you need to know to keep chickens, from health, housing and feeding to breeding. There are plenty of practical solutions to the problems a new chook keeper might face - should I let my chooks free-range? How can I stop them scratching up the neighbour's yard? Should I keep a rooster? There are chapters of recipes for egg and chicken dishes as well as ideas for chook 'extras' like feather quilts. The book includes colour photographs of various chicken breeds and chook housing ideas. A very readable, informative and funny book. 196pp

BC139

Keeping Chickens: An Australian Guide
2007 (AUS)
This is an excellent book for anyone starting out with poultry. From '10 Steps to Keeping Chickens' to plans for your chicken coop, here is all the information you need to keep chooks in your backyard. Includes descriptions of over thirty different breeds including number of eggs per year, temperament and particular needs. There are chapters on feeding and watering, diseases and health, breeding and preparing your chickens for show. 138pp

BK104

Lucky Ducks: Companions in the Organic Garden
Phoebe Thorndyke 2001 (AUS)
A very readable book about the pleasure to be found in duck keeping on a small suburban block and the invaluable aid that ducks can bring to any organic gardener. It covers feeding, water and ponds, shelter, predators and everything you would want to know to keep happy and healthy ducks. 107pp

BL101

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