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Backyard Chickens

Backyard Chickens 1

How to keep happy hens

by Dave Ingham
Hardback
Publication Date: 25/01/2017
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A henkeeping companion to the bestselling Backyard Bees, covering everything you need to know about keeping chickens even in urban areas.

Keeping a few hens was once only for rural dwellers with big yards - or inner-city hippies. Now it's mainstream and an attractive proposition wherever you live. Fluffy little recycling units that eat weeds, bugs and scraps and turn them into organic eggs what's not to love? Chickens are great backyard pets for young and old - they're a natural extension for everyone with a vegie patch, and for those who like eggs but are concerned about the welfare of commercial hens.

This book is the perfect reference, whether you're already keeping chickens or an absolute beginner thinking about getting a couple of chooks.

Dave Ingham offers compulsively readable advice on how to start, housing and feeding, settling chickens in with other pets, troubleshooting, and the (minimal) commitment required to keep your backyard hens healthy and happy.

'This book is the what for, how to, where and why of chickens for novices and wranglers alike.' - Costa Georgiadis, ABC Gardening Australia

ISBN:
9781743367537
9781743367537
Category:
Farm & working animals
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
25-01-2017
Publisher:
Murdoch Books
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
240x170mm
Weight:
0.66kg
Dave Ingham

Dave Ingham (no relation to the food brand!) is the resident henkeeping expert on radio 702 Weekends with Simon Marnie and runs Rent-a-chook, selling chickens coops and offering try-before-you-buy mini henhouses to Sydneysiders since 2001.

Dave first got into henkeeping as an impoverished uni student, when he and his mates planted a mega vegie garden chickens were a natural extension. With home brewed beer, plentiful free veg and eggs, those students ate far better than their penury would otherwise have allowed.

Some years, many chooks and a few houses later, Dave was invited to speak at a sustainability project about what he'd done to make his house more environmentally friendly. He was waxing lyrical about the benefits of keeping chickens and, on a whim, offered to lend an old coop and couple of hens to one of the group to try out. A no-commitment trial of chooks. Go on, give it a go!

Somebody coined the term Dave's Rent-a-chook and it went from there. Since establishing Rent-a-chook in 2001, Dave has seen henkeeping go from a hippie pursuit to something very common and entirely mainstream.

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I love this book! As a photographer and stylist and a new Wyandotte enthusiast I just loved the style of this book and kept referring back to it whenever there was something I wasn’t sure about. Contains lots of important info for me to ensure I give my new chickies the best care.
It’s also made it to the coffee table book display!
Highly recommended :-)

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