Chicken & Eggs: River Cottage Handbook No.11

by Mark Diacono

Overview

In the eleventh River Cottage Handbook, bestselling author Mark Diacono gives recipes and comprehensive guidance for keeping chickens.

Chickens are a fantastic addition to a garden or outdoors space - you don't have to live in the back of beyond to have a few clucking around and giving you fresh eggs. They come in all shapes and sizes: some are layers, some are just born to strut. Mark Diacono begins at the basics, showing how you can raise chickens from eggs, and look after them once they start laying their own.

The first part of Chicken&Eggs explains how to think ahead about what kind of chickens you want and how many to get, whether you are going for a breed that lays eggs regularly, or that you might eventually use for eating, or that simply looks decorative. You can choose from Orpingtons, Derbyshire redcaps, Muffed Old English Game, Leghorns and many more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408896631
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/22/2018
Series:	River Cottage Handbook
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	95 MB
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About the Author

A smallholder and writer, Mark Diacono is known for his commitment to sustainable, ethically produced food. Mark leads the Garden Team at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage and is a regular on the River Cottage TV series.

As well as having a unique take on growing your own food, Mark champions climate change growing, an approach to producing food that takes sustainable advantage of the new weather conditions; Otter Farm, his smallholding in East Devon, has become famous as home to the UK's first olive grove.

Mark's book Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook Number 4 was named Practical Book of the Year at the Garden Media Guild Awards 2009 and A Taste of the Unexpected won the Guild of Food Writers' Book of the Year 2011.
Mark Diacono is an award-winning writer and photographer. Known for his commitment to sustainable, ethically produced food, Mark was head of the Garden Team at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage for many years before setting up Otter Farm, the Britain's first and only climate change farm.

@MarkDoc / @OtterFarmUK / otterfarm.co.uk

Table of Contents

Preparing to Keep Chickens 8

Understanding Chickens 26

What You Will Need 38

Chickens for Eggs 56

Chickens for Meat 74

Starting a Flock 84

Caring for Your Chickens 108

Breeding 130

Health Issues & Predators 138

Dispatch 158

Preparing a Chicken for Cooking 168

Recipes 188

Useful Things 244

Editorial Reviews

If you have yet to come across the River Cottage Handbooks, I can't recommend them enough” —Rachel Khoo, Daily Mail

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