How to Raise Poultry (How to Raise...) |  | Author: Christine Heinrichs
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 649634
Media: Paperback
Edition: First
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 076033479X
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.5
EAN: 9780760334799
ASIN: 076033479X
Publication Date: April 15, 2009
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Product Description
Prized for their feathers or eggs, raised for their meat or their beauty or simply for fun, poultry of a dazzling array of sorts and sizes have a place in the heart of farmers, ranchers, and bird fanciers alike. If you want to raise fowl--of whatever kind and for whatever reason--this book is the perfect place to begin. Poultry expert Christine Heinrichs lays out the distinctions between waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans), turkeys, gamebirds (peafowl, pheasants, quail, and others), ratites (ostriches, emus, and rheas), and pigeons. She then clearly details the very different requirements for raising each species, from feeding and housing to husbandry and health, to showing and marketing and legal concerns. Whether you're thinking of starting a flock or acquiring a few feathered friends, this handy guide tells you everything you need to know to raise healthy poultry for pleasure or profit--or both. Breed Guide & Selection
Proper Care & Healthy Feeding
Building Facilities & Fencing
Book Description
If you want to raise poultry—for feathers or eggs, beauty or meat, pleasure or profit--this book is the perfect place to begin. Poultry expert Christine Heinrichs lays out the distinctions between waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans), turkeys, gamebirds (peafowl, pheasants, quail, and others), ratites (ostriches, emus, and rheas), and pigeons. She then clearly details the very different requirements for raising each species, from feeding and housing to husbandry and health, to showing and marketing and legal concerns. Whether you’re thinking of starting a flock or acquiring a few feathered friends, this handy guide tells you everything you need to know.
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This empowering book is jam-packed with information and surprises September 17, 2009
S. Wilson (Decatur, TX USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this book so much I keep it beside my bed and often send myself off to dreamland with pictures of beautiful, colorful poultry.
When I was growing up, we had chickens, ducks, turkeys and guineas. Gathering the eggs was my job! I've missed having that connection to some of nature's most interesting, useful creatures. With an eye toward the future when I can again have feathered friends, I purchased this book to refresh my memory about poultry care. What I got was so much more than a refresher!
This book is jam-packed with all kinds of fascinating facts, poems, historical information and the most lovely pictures. Each page contains at least one surprise!
And what a timely, empowering guide this is! As we learn more about the unsustainable and unacceptable practices of giant, factory, poultry operations, instead of feeling helpless to enact meaningful change, we learn how easy it is to keep poultry right in our backyards!
Christine did it again! September 20, 2009
Lorraine J. Neville (Morro Bay, Ca)
I didn't think Christine could top her first book but she's managed to do it. Another awesome read, enlightening and accompanied by the most beautiful illustrations. You go girl!
How To Raise Poultry September 20, 2009
Kenneth Smith (Camarillo, CA)
This is an excellent overview for those interested in getting started with raising other fowl (other than chickens). You learn a lot from this book.
And we gain from the inserts that provide interesting information regarding (as an example) the possible impact on copperhead snakes, the Ark of Taste project of the Slow Food organization, and odor free duck houses. How interesting.
Excellent Guide To Backyard Sustainable Poultry July 27, 2009
P. Riley (Sunrise, FL USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Christine Heinrichs has been raising heritage fowl for years, and she's applied her journalistic skill to share her hobby with others in an effort to help protect the diverse breeds of birds in an age of mass production. I appreciated Heinrichs' sustainable advice throughout the book, with tips on building comfortable water and fertilizer conserving coops as well as details of each breed's natural habitat and needs. I especially like the matter-of-fact way she addresses the fact that some people will be eating the birds they raise. I know that's a fact of life, but I think it would be sad to eat a creature you'd raised. Perhaps eggs are different, since you don't make friends with them... I sent a note to the author and asked what her personal preferences are on the issue:
"Personally, I do not eat anyone I have known by name. I haven't ever eaten anyone I've known in person. Eggs are another story, although it's certainly possible to get sentimental about them, too. I mean, the chicken misses them. I'm not a vegetarian, but I don't eat a lot of any kind of meat."
You'll enjoy this book for its excellent advice on the various personalities, spectacular beauty and needs of various off-beat fowl, and you'll especially appreciate this hands-on, definitive guide if you're considering hosting a rare breed of fowl in your own backyard.
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