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Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock
by: Pangman, Judy
Whether you are keeping one hen in a small back-yard or 1000 hens in a
large free-range pasture, you'll find the perfect housing plan in this
book. You'll also find plans for converting trailer frames, greenhouses
and backyard sheds; low budget alternatives for working with recycled
materials; and simple ways to make waterers, feeders and nestboxes. Easily
follow how-to drawings and step-by-step instructions for 45 coop designs.
Illustrations throughout with a full-color 16 page insert. 166 pgs.
c. 2006, S/C...$19.95
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Chicken Health Handbook
by: Damerow, Gail
Teaches you how to: hatch healthy chicks, provide proper nutrition, fight
parasites, spot diseases & infections in their early stages, protect flocks
from predators, and build safe houses & yards. It also helps pinpoint
common symptoms & causes of diseases with traetments & remedies. B/W photos
& illustrations. 344 pgs.
c.1994...S/C...$19.95
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Chicken Tractor (Straw Bale Edition)
by: Andy Lee & Pat Foreman
Gardener's guide to happy hens and healthy soil. A chicken tractor is
a bottless portable pen that fits over your garden beds. The chickens
scratch & peck the soil to clean your beds, eat pest bugs and weed seeds,
and fertilize the beds. Learn all about building tractors, making money,
raising Thanksgiving turkeys yourself, build better gardens, and much
more. B/W photos & illustrations. 318 pgs.
c. 2000...S/C...$19.95
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Chickens (Hobby Farms): Tending a Small-Scale Flock For Pleasure &
Profit
by: Weaver, Sue
A must have guide for both new and experienced farmers. Learn to: select
and purchase the right breed; construct predator proof fencing & housing;
keep poultry healthy; raise healthy chicks with or without a hen; spots
symptoms of common diseases, market and sell frsh eggs; explore chicken
resources and web sites; and much more. Color photos. 144 pgs.
c. 2005, S/C...$14.95
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Chickens (Popular Farming Series Magazine)
by: Hobby Farms Magazine Editors
The Popular Farming® Series is a collection of magabooks™ that
provides valuable information to those who already have a small farm as
well as those who are pondering the big move to the country. Chickens
has everything you need to know to start raising chickens or to embark
on a new adventure with your flock. With beautiful photos and in-depth
articles, Chickens is a must for any poultry enthusiast’s or small
farmer’s library. Contents: Around the World in 80 Centuries; Chicken
Breeds A to Z; Pickin’ Chickens; Chicken Psychology 101; Crack Open
the Joy of Hatching; Resources; Chicken Chores: The Daily Scratch; Stop
Thief; Coop du Jour; Takin’ Care of (a Poultry) Business; Top 12
Chicken Ailments; Gone Organic; Chicken Fun; Country Classics & Lighter
Fare; Why We Love Them; Includes a Glossary & list of Resources. 128
pgs.
c. 2007, Vol 1, Magazine...$9.99
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Chickens At Home (Gold Cockerel Series)
by: Roberts, Michael & Victoria
A practical guide to keeping & rearing laying hens and bantams. Chapters:
expenses; type of hen; verandah system; fold system; house with permanent
rub; deep litter system; general management; hatching; rearing; diseases
& ailments. B/W photos & illustrations. 49 pgs.
c.1998, 7th Ed, S/C...$19.95
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Chickens At Home (Gold Cockerel Series)
by: Roberts, Michael & Victoria
A practical guide to keeping & rearing laying hens and bantams. Chapters:
expenses; type of hen; verandah system; fold system; house with permanent
rub; deep litter system; general management; hatching; rearing; diseases
& ailments. B/W photos & illustrations. Also includes a chapter
on showiing & exhibiting your birds. 62 pgs.
c.2002, 9th Ed, S/C...$19.95
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Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide
by: Luttmann, Rick & Gail
This book covers all the basics in a light & entertaining style, from
housing & feeding through incubating, bringing up chicks, butchering,
and raising chickens for show. B/W line drawings. 157 pgs.
c. 1976, S/C...$12.95
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City Chicks
by: Foreman, Patricia
Keeping micro-flocks of laying hens as garden helpers, compost makers,
bio-recyclers & local food suppliers. Chickens have become the mascot
of the local food movement. A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome
food and superior soil quality has led more and more suburban and city
dwellers to keep laying hens in their backyards and gardens. Learn how
you can: • Be close to your food source with a continuous supply
of fresh, heart-healthy eggs to feed yourself and others. • Take
the best care of your chickens and find out where to buy them. •
Learn how to be a chicken whisperer. • Improve your garden soil for
super yields, superior flavor, and optimal nutrition. • Recycle food,
grass clippings and yard waste, make compost and help reduce trash going
to landfills, saving millions of municipal taxpayer dollars. • Help
save millions of municipal tax payer dollars by diverting food and yard
waste from landfills; instead create compost - with the help of your flock.
• Raise baby chicks with items you already have. • Avoid getting
roosters and why you don't want them. And much more! By the co-author
of Chicken Tractor, Backyard Market Gardening and Day Range Poultry. City
Chicks is a remarkable trend-setting book for poultry lovers and urban
agriculturists. B/W photos. 459 pgs.
c. 2009, S/C...$22.50
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Complete Book Of Wild Turkey Hunting
by: Trout, John Jr.
Covers all the basics & essential gear items, but goes much further
by providing specialized tactics. You'll learn how to: roost birds at
night, use the right calls at the right times, find the perfect set-up
spots, hunt mature gobblers, choose guns & loads, lure gobblers away
from hens, track birds, deal with pressured birds, and much more. B/W
& color photos. 266 pgs.
c. 2000, S/C...$24.95
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Like new except
inscription in front cover
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Counting Our Chickens: Identifying Breeds in Danger of Extinction
by: Bender, Marjorie & Hawes, Robert & Bixby, Donald
This report presents the results of ALBC's census of hatcheries and individual
breeders of chickens conducted between January 2001 and August 2002. Included
are population figures and conservation status for over fifty breeds,
a brief history of chickens in the United States, an analysis of breed
security, next steps for conservation, and what you can do to help. Contact
information for all participating hatcheries and sources of chicken breeds
is included. This data is especially valuable to anyone concerned with
the future of non-industrial chicken breeds and maintaining genetic diversity.
Illustrated. 52 pgs.
c. 2002, S/C...$12.00
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Courage: The Story Of Modern Cockfighting
by: Pridgen, Tim
A well-illustrated study of a sport which, the author notes, "is
firmly rooted in the age-old habits of the race...with those who deeply
love the sport it lies close to the instinctive processes". B/W photos.
263 pgs.
c. 1938, H/C...$75.00
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Near mint, no dust
jacket, no writing, no marks
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Crested Bantams
by: Brenneman, Lynn
Polish, Houdan, other breeds, health problems, care of the crest, &
breeding.
c.1977...S/C...$6.95
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Day Range Poultry
by: Lee, Andy & Foreman, Patricia
Every chicken owner's guide to grazing gardens and improving pastures.
How to raise thanksgiving turkeys for yourself and others, build & regenerate
soils using natural fertilizer deposited directly from your chickens to
your soil, learn the secrets to incubation & hatching, process poultry
cheaper and profitably, sell eggs & meat with that old-fashioned flavor
and homegrown goodness. B/W photos. 308 pgs.
c. 2002, S/C...$22.00
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Diseases of Free-Range Poultry
by: Victoria Roberts, BVSc, MRCVS
Includes hens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pheasants, guinea fowl, quail and
wild waterfowl. Knowledge of how a bird's body system is given to help
explain why certain conditions are likely to occur. Various functions
are described in simple language. A chart of common disorders enables
you to track down from the symptoms what may ail your bird. Includes a
glossary, an appendices for a medicine cupboard, classification of breeds,
pure-breed laying capabilities, and management & feeding. Color photos
& B/W line drawings. 152 pgs.
c. 2000, H/C...$29.95
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Domestic & Ornamental Fowl
by: Porter, Valerie
Physiology, behavior, nutrition, housing, health, breeding, species.
c.1989...H/C...$24.95
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Ducks, Geese & Turkeys For Anyone
Roberts, Victoria
Identification of 45 different breeds, with information of each breed's
history, its characteristics, its utility, and its special requirements.
Also includes egg production, show preparation, housing & management,
and common diseases. Color photos. 128 pgs.
c. 2002, H/C...$38.95
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Early Embryology Of The Chick
by: Patten, Bradley
Gametes, fertilization, germ layers, primitive streak, structure to 4
days. B/W illustrations, color plates.
c. 1950, H/C...$27.50
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Conditon: Very Good
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Eggs & Chickens
by: Vivian, John
Chicken breeds, brooding and early care, henhouse furniture, feeders,
producing your own feed. 26 pgs.
c. 1978, Booklet...$3.95
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
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Encyclopedia Of Historic & Endangered Livestock & Poultry Breeds
by: Dohner, Janet Vorwald
Complete information on the history, characteristics, qualities, and traits
of 138 endangered livestock breeds (Goats, Sheep, Swine, Cattle, Equines),
and 53 poultry breeds (Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese). Includes where
these breeds can be seen today, the degree of rarity of each breed in
the US, UK, and Canada, information on feral livestock populations, 160
color photos and over 80 B/W photos and historical illustrations. 514
pgs.
c. 2001, H/C...$80.00
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Extra Extra Ordinary Chickens
by: Green-Armytage, Stephen
The first book, Extra Ordinary Chickens was such a hugh success, the author
has done it again. This unique book provides a window into the world of
exotic chickens. With gorgeous color photos and lively text, this book
surveys many breeds from around the world. Over 200 color photos. 112
pgs.
c. 2005, H/C...$24.95
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Extraordinary Chickens
by: Green-Armytage, Stephen
This book provides a glorious window into the world of exotic chickens.
Gorgeous color photos and informative text, the author describes many
unusual breeds from around the world. 179 photos. 112 pgs.
c. 2000, H/C...$24.95
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Extraordinary Chickens (Pocket Size)
by: Green-Armytage, Stephen
This book provides a glorious window into the world of exotic chickens.
Gorgeous color photos and informative text, the author describes many
unusual breeds from around the world. 156 photos. 320 pgs.
c. 2003, S/C, Pocket Size...$12.95
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Fairest Fowl: Portraits of Championship Chickens
by: Glass, Ira
Photographer Tamara Staples celebrates the champions of the chicken world
at their best. Dozens of fashion-runway-style portraits capture the quirky
personality and undeniable grace of these noble birds. Superb full-page
color photos. 106 pgs.
c. 2001, S/C...$14.95
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Free-Range Poultry
by: Thear, Katie
Practical & comprehensive guide to the free-range management of chickens,
on any scale. Traces the history and development of domestic fowl, from
the Red Jungle Fowl of Thailand, through the traditional pure breeds to
the highly developed hybrids of today's free-range sector. Breeds, old
& new, illustrated in color. Advice on the best choice of birds for specific
purposes, including egg production, table bird production, breeding to
show standards and general interest poultry keeping. Every aspect of poultry
husbandry is covered. Color pictures, B/W drawings, tables, charts & graphs.
181 pgs.
c. 2002, 3rd Ed...H/C...$38.95
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Guinea Fowl
by: Van Hoesen, Roy & Stromberg
Characteristics, habits, raising, feeding, mating, sexing, housing. B/W
photos. 92 pgs.
c.1975...S/C...$10.95
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