Could anyone recommend a bog-standard informative book with all the basics of feeding, etc in it. I have one but it's more of a coffee-table book with lots of lovely pics of hens I haven't got and short on the things I actually want to know.
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chrismahon
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Storey's Guid to Raising Chickenswritten by Gail Damerow ISBN 978-1-60342-469-1. This covers everything in great detail and is the only book you should ever need.
Thanks, Chris. There are several used on Amazon and eBay so I'll look for a good deal. I can't believe I just said that - Brexit must be getting to me!
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We have that book and it is excellent. contains all you need, you will find it useful
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Thank you.
Or just look at past threads on here?
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Yes, indeed, Marigold, but I don't want to be bothering people if I can just look in a book.
We like to be bothered!
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Bother away we like to feel useful :lol: :lol:
At lest all our cumulative experience is hard-won through making lots of mistakes and suffering various disasters. Chicken keeping books always seem to make it look so simple, clean and tidy! (Like the advertisements for Omlet coops, set out on an immaculate lawn with a couple of hens plonked down there for the first time, when 24 hours later the grass would have been scratched up and disappeared.)
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Any pics of hens in books, not only has an immaculate lawn, but no poop anywhere in sight.
First chicken rule of getting on the lawn poop where you know the human has to tread, bonus points for on the step. After a day scratching about our lot make the area look like the aftermath of the battle of Waterloo.
2nd chicken rule if you feel ill go down with something that doesn't match a description in any book, as humans just love worrying and poring over a book is so much better for them than watching tv.
3rd rule we chickens don't do clean and tidy
First chicken rule of getting on the lawn poop where you know the human has to tread, bonus points for on the step. After a day scratching about our lot make the area look like the aftermath of the battle of Waterloo.
2nd chicken rule if you feel ill go down with something that doesn't match a description in any book, as humans just love worrying and poring over a book is so much better for them than watching tv.
3rd rule we chickens don't do clean and tidy
...'scratched up and disappeared'...
The grass where we've put our Eglu is full of moss and the hens are scratching it out nicely. We can keep moving the coop and we'll have a moss-free lawn in no time! We must have good girls.
Yes, I always search the past threads if I'm looking for something but sometimes can't find anything (orI'm using the wrong terminology).
The grass where we've put our Eglu is full of moss and the hens are scratching it out nicely. We can keep moving the coop and we'll have a moss-free lawn in no time! We must have good girls.
Yes, I always search the past threads if I'm looking for something but sometimes can't find anything (orI'm using the wrong terminology).
