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A detailed and beautifully illustrated guide to making over 30 wild bird nest boxes and a bird table. This book takes you through building, locating and maintaining the nest boxes and is suitable for everyone from novices upwards. The range of nest boxes covers most of our wild bird species in the UK from Tits to Barn Owls. More...

A detailed and beautifully illustrated guide to making over 30 wild bird nest boxes and a bird table. This book takes you through building, locating and maintaining the nest boxes and is suitable for everyone from novices upwards. The range of nest boxes covers most of our wild bird species in the UK from Tits to Barn Owls. More...

A guide to rearing pheasants including overwintering, incubation, catching, rearing and releasing, and chapters on diseases, construction of pens and costs. Fully illustrated with colour photographs and diagrams throughout. More...

This was our first colour photographic book, originally printed in 1984, showing 40 breeds of bantam and miniature fowl. This book is a must for identifying different breeds or for choosing a breed to keep. There are over 121 photographs and illustrations. More...

A practical guide for the small farmer on free range egg production and sales. There are chapters on integration with other farming interests, costs of 100 bird units, marketing and regulations, types of housing, fencing, feeding, lighting, general management, diseases and ailments. More...

This is a D.I.Y. guide to building hen houses, Chicken coops and allied equipment such as show boxes, free range feeder, trap nest boxes. More...

This book covers most of the diseases and ailments encountered in keeping poultry, turkeys and waterfowl. It is written in plain English in an easy to follow format describing signs, causes, prevention, treatment and mortality. It also includes many of the drugs used in the treatment of diseases. There is a list of avian vets in Britain at the back of this book and a translation of veterinary terms into plain English. There are many illustrations and photographs. More...

If you have problems with rats, mice, moles, foxes, magpies etc. this book will tell you how to control them. there are chapters on trapping, poisoning and identifying your pest, and plenty of illustrations and photographs. More...

One of the easiest books to follow on keeping chickens or bantams in your garden, orchard or smallholding. With over 125,000 copies sold this is a must for all chicken owners.

Now revised and reprinted with new colour photographs (Aug 2009 10th edition)

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This book documents the 22 breeds that have been developed in Britain together with their history and most of their colour variations. 92 colour photographs in all. More...

A beginner's guide to keeping and breeding ornamental waterfowl written by Alan Birkbeck, past president of the British Waterfowl Association. This book is filled with practical and detailed information about the care, breeding, incubation, hatching, rearing, pinioning, sexing etc. of wildfowl including up to date legislation. Includes 31 colour photographs of different breeds of wildfowl. More...

This is a detailed book about using small incubators and most of the problems encountered using them. There are chapters on different types of incubators, preparation for incubation such as cleaning and sterilisation, thermometers, humidity, collection and storage of eggs, candling, hatching, sexing and rearing plus a chapter on "where did I go wrong?" Packed full of information, mainly first hand too! Lots of illustrations and photographs.

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This is a colour guide to most breeds of domestic ducks and geese, also showing most colour variations in each breed, including call ducks and Indian runners. Over 122 photographs. More...

If you have a smallholding or farm or you keep small livestock, this is the book for you. There are 22 projects in wood, each with a photograph of the finished article and complete with diagrams of all the sections and panels with measurements. There are hurdles, a mobile hay rack, a mineral block holder, sheep troughs, gates large and small, brooders, a folding saw bench, a goat house and poultry sections to name a few. More...

This book is all about Coturuix quail, with fascinating chapters on their history and domestication. There is detailed information about keeping quail not only for a hobby but also commercially, with 30 colour photographs including most of the colour variations in Coturuix quail and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations. More...

If you are wanting to keep a few ducks or geese, this is the book for you. There are chapters on the different breeds, marketing ducks and geese, breeding, different methods of keeping ducks and geese, hatching and rearing, general management, exhibition and diseases and ailments. More...

20 projects in wood for the garden. Each project has a photograph of the finished article together with easy-to-follow line drawings of their construction. Suitable for the amateur carpenter. The projects include trellises, cloches, greenhouse / shed, garden gate, cold frame, dovecote, compost box, planters, apple store etc. More...

A new book on keeping pigeons in polecotes, wallcotes and aviaries with chapters on beginner's breeds, types of housing, pigeons and gardens, how to set up a breeding colony, breeding and management, pigeon predators and diseases and ailments. There are chapters on the origin of the domestic pigeon and the history of dovecotes, especially from Egypt, together with many colour photographs and illustrations. More...

This book is a sequel to Poultry House Construction and ideally should be read in conjunction with it.There are descriptions of 8 different methods of mobilising hen houses, 3 fold units, 2 large free range houses, a broody coop, a sound moderated house, an urban poultry house, a wheelchair user's poultry house, 2 shelters, a rollaway nest box, a 6ft run and 6ft and 10ft sections. All are accompanied with numerous photographs and detailed plans.
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This book looks at the many types of farm gates and stiles together with their history and munufacture. This large and diverse subject is covered in great detail over 151 pages and with more than 200 illustrations and photographs. topics covered include the history and different patterns of gates, the construction of gates, the origins of footpaths and much more. If you are a keen walker this book is ideal, allowing you to tick off the gates and stiles covered in the book that you have seen on your ramblings. Please note: the cover shown is the back cover, the book is in landscape format. More...

This book includes new historical references, methods of keeping Crested and Vulturine guineafowl, experiences of wild guineafowl in Africa and keeping and rearing guineafowl on a small scale. The book contains chapters on housing, breeding, sexing and large scale commercial rearing together with preparation and marketing. There are numerous colour photographs and illustrations including photographs of 18 different colour variations of domestic guineafowl. More...

A beginners guide to keeping a few sheep. Covers all you need to know from Buying sheep to begin with to lambing. Ideal for the small holder who wants to keep a few ewes but is not sure what they need to do. Contains chapters on Buying sheep, Equipment, Housing, Grass and Hay, Shearing, Sales from sheep, Moving sheep, Breeding, Lambing, Records, Diseases and problems, General information and Good tips. More...

This book is written for people who want to know more about peafowl and contains lots of information on peacocks. It includes sections on management and breeding, raising peacocks, on peafowl in the wild, their place in history and their connection with Indian mythology. The book is illustrated in full color throughout.
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Goats for Beginners is written by Maggi Franklin who has been breeding Champion goats for over 30 years. She is also a well known judge, officiating at shows up and down the country. The book covers breeds, diseases, dairying, showing and much more, and is ideal for anyone keen to start keeping goats. More...

A guide to keeping pheasants, with sections on beginners' breeds, more challenging breeds, difficult breeds and rare pheasants which are not available. Included are chapters on buying pheasants, aviaries, incubation, breeding, rearing, feeding, catching and transporting, selling, diseases and CITES. There are colour photographs of most of the breeds. More...

An in depth guide to how plumage patterns work, beautifully illustrated with over 240 colour photographs. More...

A comprehensive book about rearing and releasing partridges in the UK. It is written by one of England's foremost rearers of both Grey and Red-legged partridges, and describes breeding pens, egg collection, incubation and hatching. There are chapters on rearing partridges from day old through to 14 to 16 weeks when they are released into the wild.
This book is also for those people who rear a few pheasants and want to try partridges as well; it describes the rearing field, the pens, shelters, houses, water, food and explains the importance of monitoring the birds through to release. There is also an excellent chapter on partridge diseases by one of England's foremost avian vets, Alan Beynon.



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A book about small scale turkey production with chapters on the history of turkeys, characteristics and behavior, breeds and colour variations, nutrition, breeding, housing, hatching, rearing, preparation for the table, marketing and regulations, exhibiting and diseases. Many illustrations and photographs in colour and black and white. More...