The Illustrated Guide to Chickens: How To Choose Them - How To Keep Them

by Celia Lewis, Celia Lewis (Illustrator)

Overview

The Illustrated Guide to Chickens covers the 100 most familiar breeds of
chickens in Europe and North America. The breed profiles are written in engaging text that covers the history
of each breed, its main
characteristics, and information about looking after them. Each
breed has been illustrated with delightful paintings by the author.

Introductory
sections contain practical advice about poultry-rearing and husbandry,
and outline the differences between breeds, including the pros and cons
between pure breeds, hybrids, bantams, game fowl, etc., and layers or
table. The foreword has been written by HRH the Prince of Wales.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408169988
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/31/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Celia Lewis is an accomplished artist and is passionate about chickens.
She is the co-author of a bestselling book on rearing chickens.
Celia Lewis is an accomplished artist and the author of the bestselling Illustrated Guide to Chickens, Illustrated Guide to Pigs and Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl as well as the wonderful An Illustrated Country Year.

Celia started her art career studying life and portrait charcoal drawing with Signorina Simi in Florence. She is now a member of a dynamic art group and several art societies in Surrey where she lives. She has won several prizes including the 2005 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI) medal and Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) Winsor&Newton Prize 2009.

Living in the country Celia is lucky enough to be able to keep hens and pigs in her garden and, along with nearby cows and sheep, this is where she finds her inspiration. Although working mainly in watercolour she has now branched out into acrylics.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: bantam, hybrid, pure breed, etc

2 Key

3 Cocks

4 Combs, feathers, feather diagram, wing diagram

5 Housing and fencing

6 Buying hens or eggs

7 Feeding

8 Broodiness and incubating

9 100 breed profiles

10 Common ailments

11 Culling

12 Breed type list

13 Quick Reference Guide

14 Useful websites

15 Acknowledgements

16 Glossary

17 Index