From ancient empires to modern economics, veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a sweeping history of the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization across the globe the chicken.

Covers the methods for sexing all types of birds including chicks, game birds, and cage birds. An easy to follow book that we have had many requests for.

Poultry authority Gail Damerow explains exactly how to hatch healthy baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. Addressing everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator.

The 2010 edition, features revisions and over 30 pairs of new color illustrations. The new Standard will be dressed with poultry-related images and highlights.

Discover how easy and profitable it is to sell chickens, eggs, and turkeys raised in gardens or on pastures.

A detailed book about using small incubators and most of the problems encountered using them.

A complete instructions building your own plucker at a fraction of the cost of a factory built unit. This book includes part list, detailed diagrams, and a resource listing of supplier for all the parts needed.

is "how to" book serves as a valuable reference guide for a wide range of questions about raising chickens. How to build coops, proper feeding, identifying and treating diseases.

Care of breeding stock, grooming, plans for housing, lists of poultry clubs, judges, sources of trophies, many, many illustrations that can help a beginner and interest a veteran.

This easy-to-read book offers children with no experience in raising their own chickens virtually all they need to know to get started.

A beautiful 43 page book printed in England. A practical guide for the small farmer on free range egg production and sales.

A practical but comprehensive guide to free-range management of chickens on any scale. The book is suitable for those setting up or managing a commercial free-range unit.

Loyl Stromberg has been involved in the poultry business all his life, and this book is the fruit of his experiences and years of research.

How Keeping Chickens in Your Yard I Ruffling Feathers Across the Nation and A Beginner's Guide to Hen Keeping is the book you need if you want to raise chickens.

Covers Housing, feeding, breeding, chicks to adults, caponizing, killing and dressing, disease control, and incubation. Includes chapters on turkeys and waterfowl.