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Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry is the only book you need to naturally and humanely raise a wide range of poultry, from chickens and turkeys to waterfowl and game birds -- even uncommon species, such as pigeons, emus, doves, ostriches, peafowl, and swans. Whether you’re running a farm or raising a few birds in the backyard, Glenn Drowns tells you everything you need to know about breed selection, housing, space requirements, behavior, breeding, hatching, feeding, health care, and the business of processing meat and eggs. This revised edition includes new and updated information on health and disease, raising birds on pasture, growing your own feed, housing, breeding, slaughtering, and marketing.
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This book has great information about raising all kinds of poultry. Its unique advantage over other books is that it covers the less common (i.e. non-chicken) types of poultry, especially gamebirds. The author does a great job of explaining what things are similar between different types of birds, and what things are different. If you are considering raising other birds, read this book first- it will help you get off to a great start.
The information in the book tends to cover the more basic, common scenarios for chickens rather than being packed full of tons of less common details and facts. No doubt, this is in order to cover all of the topics related to other birds while still keeping the book a manageable length. It is a great resource for all chicken keepers. It will answer most of your questions, but won't answer all of them (however, I rather doubt that any single book will). Some topics it covers particularly well- housing, bird biology, what to expect from your birds month-by-month (great for the beginner!), and appendices devoted to feed and incubation information. I was surprised at the relative lack of information about raising birds on pasture- while this topic is covered, it is not covered at the level of detail as some other topics, but there are other books specifically devoted to pastured poultry. The book also covers some more unique topics- a chapter each on breeding, incubating, showing, and poultry as pets.
By Roxann
I got every book my library had on the topic of raising poultry. This was by far the best of the lot!
By UlrikeDG