Small Scale Poultry Feeding

This authoritative handbook is essential reading for all aspiring, and practising, small-scale poultry keepers. Written for those with just a little land available - in a garden, on a smallholding, or in school grounds - Ray Feltwell explains every aspect of poultry keeping: the type ofpoultry to choose, housing, feeding, breeding and general management. A chapter is also devoted to geese, ducks, turkeys and guinea-fowl, and another to breeding birds for show. One of the world's leading experts on poultry husbandry, the author has maintained his enthusiasm for small-scale poultry keeping ever since he kept half a dozen hens as a boy. Whether you have ambitions to follow in his footsteps, or hope to produce eggs and poultry meat for local sale, or whether you simply relish the joy of eating freshly collected free-range eggs from your own garden, SMALL-SCALE POULTRY KEEPING gives invaluable advice on how to go about it.