Birds, including cage birds, as pets Books
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Racing Pigeons Advanced Techniques Feeding Secrets
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Pigeon Racing Deep into Sport Diseases and Treatment
£11.64
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Racing Pigeons Natural Remedies
£15.17
Skyhorse Publishing Keeping Chickens: A Practical Journal for Life
Book SynopsisA Useful Tool for Raising your Flock Now you can track your chickens' egg production, growth, feeding habits, temperament, and health all in one journal! With over 190 lined pages and over 50 practical tips from chicken keeping enthusiasts, you can spend time each day recording your flock's activities and learning more about your chickens. Enjoy
£9.49
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Pigeon Racing: Beginners Guide
£12.94
Ebury Publishing Save Our Birds: How to bring our favourite birds
Book SynopsisThe Banksy of The Bird World shares simple wisdom to help the birds we love to thrive.Bestselling author and illustrator, Matt Sewell, is back with his most inspirational book yet. Save Our Birds is a celebration of our endangered birds and call to arms for bird-lovers of all ages to help protect them.Matt has created new, beautiful watercolour artworks of Britain's most loved birds, and their habitats, all of which are sadly on the Red List - the respected, international guide to endangered species. Sewell provides a wealth of practical advice on how we can protect them from extinction. Explore cities, coastlands, woodlands and farms, leaving no habitat unexplored around the British Isles.From bird-friendly window boxes to community projects, discover the steps you can take, actions both big and small, to save our birds.
£11.40
iUniverse The True Story of Freddie Mercury the Parrot: How
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Workman Publishing Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a
Book Synopsis“If your garden fantasies involve chickens, Jessi Bloom is here to make those dreams come true.” —The New York Times Many gardeners fear chickens will peck away at their landscape. But you can keep chickens and have a beautiful garden, too! In this essential handbook, award-winning garden designer Jessi Bloom offers step-by-step instructions for creating a beautiful and functional space while maintaining a happy, healthy flock. Free-Range Chicken Gardens covers everything a gardener needs to know, from the basics of chicken keeping and creating the perfect chicken-friendly garden design to building innovative coops.
£16.47
Workman Publishing Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks: Chickens,
Book SynopsisGail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you’ll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.
£17.09
Workman Publishing How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What
Book SynopsisBest-selling author Melissa Caughey knows that backyard chickens are like any favourite pet - fun to spend time with and fascinating to observe. Her hours among the flock have resulted in this quirky, irresistible guide packed with first-hand insights into how chickens communicate and interact, use their senses to understand the world around them, and establish pecking order and roles within the flock. Combining her up-close observations with scientific findings and interviews with other chicken enthusiasts, Caughey answers unexpected questions such as Do chickens have names for each other? How do their eyes work? and How do chickens learn? Foreword INDIES Silver Award Winner
£12.34
Workman Publishing Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Edition:
Book SynopsisSerious poultry farmers and backyard bird raisers have relied on this best-selling reference for more than 20 years. The fourth edition of Gail Damerow’s comprehensive handbook is now completely revised and redesigned, making it more accessible and informative than ever. You’ll get the most up-to-date details on shelter, food, health care, eggs, chicks, and meat, and recent research into chicken behavior and communication makes the sections on flock management truly authoritative. New color photos and illustrations provide more specificity and information about chicken breeds, anatomy, and health.
£18.04
Skyhorse Publishing Chickens: Their Natural and Unnatural Histories
Book SynopsisFramed by the author’s personal experience with backyard hens, Chickens: Their Natural and Unnatural Histories explores the history of the chicken from its descent from the dinosaurs to the space-age present. En route, Lembke surveys chickens in ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the nineteenth century, and modern times, including the role of chickens in Jewish and Muslim practices. She also investigates the birds’ contributions to science and their jaunty appearances in literature. Eggs receive a chapter of their own, as does chicken cuisine, comprising recipes from the Roman Empire to today’s favorites. Stories about chickens appear, too, often written by those who keep them, including the painter Grandma Moses, the man who holds Cleveland’s Farm Animal Permit No. 17, and Brenda, who had to give her young roosters a talking-to for behaving like sheep. Chickens have only recently come to a sorry pass in the Western world, where broilers and laying hens are factory-farmed. Lembke investigates the fate of such birds and explores the sustainable, humane alternatives to raising birds for meat and eggs. A celebration of the chicken in its every aspect, Chickens is sure to delight the chicken fancier, the backyard chicken keeper, and everyone concerned about where our food comes from and how we can treat animals more compassionately.
£18.04
Skyhorse Publishing Five Fat Hens: A Guide for Keeping Chickens and
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£15.26
Workman Publishing An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Backyard
Book SynopsisWith delightful photographs, Jenna Woginrich chronicles the life journey of three chickens (Amelia, Honey, and Tilda) from fluffy, newly hatched bundles to grown hens laying eggs of their own. Following their progress from day to day and week to week, you'll learn everything you need to know to be successful in raising and keeping a happy, healthy flock. Topics covered include understanding chicken behavior; housing and feeding requirements; hygiene and basic health care. Both entertaining and educational, this highly accessible book provides just the right amount of information to get started and enjoy the pleasures of keeping backyard chickens.
£11.39
Workman Publishing My Chicken Family: A Keepsake Album, Ready to
Book SynopsisThis beautifully designed keepsake album is perfect for chronicling chicken-keeping adventures, tracking the growth from chick to flock elder—with spaces and prompts for distinctive personalities, names, photos, and amusing anecdotes. Backyard chicken keepers have a deep affection for their animals and interact with them like any pet, as Melissa Caughey, best-selling author of How to Speak Chicken, knows well from her decades of chicken friendships. With My Chicken Family, Caughey has created a unique keepsake album that invites chicken owners to create a lasting record of their chicken adventures, with spots for adding photos of their favorite flock members and write-in prompts customized to every phrase of the the chicken-keeping experience. Featuring charming chicken-themed art borders, every page invite users to chronicle an aspect of their chickens’ lives, beginning with chicks and progressing to laying hen or rooster, to flock elder. Spaces are allocated for recording amusing anecdotes along with practical information about the selected breeds, health care, flock dynamics, and individual chicken names and personalities. The hardcover format features an egg-shaped die-cut cover that every owner can customize with a portrait of one of their own feathered friends, making it a perfect gift for any backyard chicken enthusiast.
£11.04
Workman Publishing How to Read a Chickens Mind
Book SynopsisThe best-selling author of How to Speak Chicken takes a deep dive into the mind of the chicken, exploring how these popular feathered pets think, feel, and navigate the world.
£14.39
Rockridge Press The Intermediate Guide to Raising Chickens: How
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£22.49
Texas A&M University Press Cemetery Birding: An Unexpected Guide to
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£27.96
Rockridge Press The Beginner's Guide to Chicken Breeds: An
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£14.24
Curious about Curious about Birds
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£33.92
Little, Brown Book Group Doing Bird
Book SynopsisThousands of people are keeping chickens as pets for the first time. There are plenty of books that will show you how. Doing Bird tells you what it's like, charting the highs and lows in the year of an amateur hen keeper and his flock.Split into months and seasons, Doing Bird is an extension of Gurdon's highly successful Sunday Telegraph 'Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance' column, and brings out the characters and idiosyncrasies of the birds themselves.Highlights include Bombay the Indian runner duck's unrequited and very non-platonic love for Bella the chicken. Sven the rheumatic, pensioner cockerel's last stand against a marauding fox, and his son Svenson's sometimes awkward transition from teenaged pretender to putative Alpha male with a dodgy aim. We see the power play between flock old stagers Peeping Chicken, Anne Summers, Brahms, Meringue, Bella and Nude to new arrivals Squawks 1 and 2 and the pair of birds initially known as 'the other two,' until one of them tries savaging the author's hand and is re-christened Slasher -leaving her colleague with the sobriquet of 'Too'.
£7.49
Transworld Publishers Ltd The Curious Bird Lover’s Handbook
Book Synopsis'A revelation for anyone with the slightest interest in the feathered friends visiting their gardens' - Garden NewsYou don't have to be a dedicated birdwatcher to be a bird lover. Millions of us love the sight and sound of them. And yet most of us know very little about their remarkable behaviour, incredible diversity and the story of their evolution. This handbook sets about answering every interesting question there is to ask about birds.How do migrating birds know where to go?Are birds really descended from dinosaurs?How do birds have sex?There are over 10,000 species in the world, including over 500 in Britain, some rare and endangered, some bizarre and beautiful, others common and familiar. As this captivating and often humorous handbook reveals, all of them are fascinating.Filled with beautiful illustrations, The Curious Bird Lover's Handbook is perfect for experienced twitchers and those who are simply captivated by the beauty of birds and would like to learn more about them.-The hardback edition titled "Bald Coot and Screaming Loon" was published in 2009. This paperback edition has been updated and includes a new foreword from the author.Trade ReviewFascinating for anyone with an inquisitive mind and a love of wildlife in general * Friends of the Earth Magazine *An irresistible package * The Eden Magazine *A revelation for anyone with the slightest interest in the feathered friends visiting their gardens... With more than 1,000 facts, figures and fables, it's an ideal stocking filler for bird lovers. * Garden News *
£9.49
Red Robin Publishing Ltd. Birds of Prey 2026 Square Wall Calendar
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£11.87
Red Robin Publishing Ltd. British Garden Birds 2026 Square Wall Calendar
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£11.87
Red Robin Publishing Ltd. Exotic Birds 2026 Square Wall CalendarR
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£11.87
Andrews UK Limited George the Orphan Crow and the Creatures of
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£9.49
Haynes Publishing Group Chicken Manual: The complete step-by-step guide
Book SynopsisThis book, the latest innovative Haynes Manual, will provide a complete and easy-to-understand reference for the growing band of people wishing to keep their own chickens for both food and pleasure. Pitched at the novice but also containing plenty to interest the experienced chicken-keeper, the book will contain no-nonsense advice, tips, facts and step-by step sequences, as well as plenty of relevant photographs and diagrams. As more people keep chickens nowadays than at any time since the Second World War, this book is a timely addition to the Haynes range. 'a superb book' Keep ChickensTrade Review'a complete and easy-to-follow reference for the novice.' Practical Poultry ‘In typical Haynes style, this 192-page hardback provides a complete and easy-to-follow reference for the novice poultry keeper.’ Practical Poultry ‘a superb book’ Keep Chickens ‘a good, easy-to-understand reference manual for the novice, as well as having plenty to interest more experienced keepers.’ Kitchen Garden ‘eminently readable and full of practical advice.’ Your Chickens ‘a complete and easy-to-follow reference for the novice' Practical Poultry Table of ContentsFour major sections are devoted to 'Getting started', 'Keeping your chickens', 'Specialist information' and 'Problems'. Getting started: choosing a breed, the popular breeds (30 are highlighted), hybrids, other poultry, the various ways of acquiring chickens (including hatching your own). Keeping your chickens: daily care, seasonal care, feeding and watering, housing, security from predators (two-legged and four-legged), vermin (rats/mice, foxes, mink/stoats/weasels, pigeons, magpies/crows), laying (types of eggs, selling, regulations), first aid. Specialist information: anatomy and plumage, colours and markings, breeding (reproduction, mating, incubation, hatching, rearing), showing, conservation, dispatching (methods of killing, dressing). Problems: common diseases (includes simple diagnosis charts), biology, health, nutrition, bird 'flu facts. Step-by-step procedures will feature where relevant, in time-honoured Haynes style, and will include construction of a poultry house and brooder and how to use an incubator correctly.
£22.50
The Crowood Press Ltd Keeping Canaries
Book SynopsisCanaries have been domesticated since the fifteenth century, when the Spanish first imported them from their Canary Isles home, attracted by their melodic song. Since then their popularily as a caged bird has spread throughout the world, This book instroduces several of the different types of canary that are popular today, and offers invaluable advice on the responsibilities of ownership and how best to care for these beautiful birds.
£13.49
Batsford Ltd A Bird A Day
Book SynopsisThe beauty and fascination of birds is unrivalled. Every day of the year, immerse yourself in their world with an entry from A Bird of Day, where Dominic Couzens offers an insight into everything from the humble Robin to Emperor Penguins, who are in the midst of Arctic storms protecting their young on 1 July. Or discover the fate of the Passenger Pigeon which became extinct through overhunting on 1 September 2014. If you ever visit the Himalayan uplands, go in late November when you can see a flock of the cobalt blue Grandala birds, which is one of the wonders of the natural world. The author is a world expert on birds and particularly bird behaviour and he reveals endless fascinating stories of birds from all over the globe to give a rich tapestry of avian life with stunning photography, illustration and arresting art. All of bird life is covered, from nesting, migration, and courting to birdsong and curious bird behaviour. From the promiscuous Fairywren of Australia, who gives petals to his mistresses, to the singing instructions of the female Northern Cardinal in North America, this is a delightful dip-in-and-out book for any nature lover.Trade Review'Couzens has created a nuanced book that offers many windows, roads, nooks and crannies to enhance our own personal journey with birds.' -- Birdwatch'This is an attractive book to look at and an interesting one to read. It would make a very good Christmas present for just about anyone who is interested in birds, whatever their level of knowledge.' -- Mark Avery'An ideal reference book for fledgling ornithologists.' -- Mary Skipworth * The Field *'For dipping into – and learning a lot when you do' -- Stephen Moss * Mark Avery Blog *'Perfect for dipping into, beautifully written, and great to look at.' * Birdwatching, Book of the Month *
£18.00
Little, Brown Book Group The Urban Hen: A practical guide to keeping
Book SynopsisPaul Peacock shows you how to: find the best poultry for the small garden and house them properly, feed your birds, tune in to their daily needs and enjoy your own eggs; avoid annoying the neighbours by showing that it is possible to keep poultry without attracting unwelcome pests; recognise healthy happy birds and learn their daily routine; recognise poorly hens; treat them or get help; and, incubate and care for fertilised eggs and raise chicks.Trade Review'The perfect companion for the city poultry keeper.' * Country Smallholding *'We thoroughly recommend this book to anyone thinking about keeping chickens. It highlights the difficulties and the advantages in very clear terms. And if you decide to keep chickens then this book has everything you need to feed and care for them.' * www.gardenaction.co.uk *'Shows gardeners everything they need to know about the joys and responsibilities of keeping chickens.' * Garden Retail *Table of Contents1. New to Chickens; 2. Anatomy of the Chicken; 3. Breeds; 4. Feeding Your Chickens; 5. Poultry Care; 6. Chicken Diseases; 7. Chicks - Making Your Own; 8. The Egg; 9. Getting Help;
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Imb Publishing Mallard Ducks as Pets. The Mallard Duck Owner's Manual. Mallard Duck pros and cons, care, housing, diet and health all included.
£10.97
Imb Publishing Cayuga Ducks as Pets. Cayuga Duck Owners Manual. Cayuga Duck Pros and Cons, Care, Housing, Diet and Health All Included.
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Imb Publishing Silkies. Silkie Chickens Owners Manual.
£11.97
Graffeg Limited Nature Book Series, The: The Robin Book
Book SynopsisAmong the UK''s favourite birds and especially associated with the Christmas period, the latest volume in the Nature Book series explores this treasured creature through over 100 mesmerising photographs and accessible, informative sections ranging from the physiological to myth and legend.
£9.49
Exisle Publishing Cluck: A Book of Happiness for Chicken Lovers
Book SynopsisAny chicken owner will know that there's more to these endearing, quirky, clever characters than the eggs they produce. Cluck is a celebration of hens, roosters and chicks, combining high-quality photography with inspirational and amusing quotes to create the perfect gift for chicken fans. Some of the collection's quotations come from famous people (Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, Mark Twain, Plutarch), others don't; some are philosophical, others light-hearted all are memorable. Accompanied by beautiful pictures of a variety of these farmyard birds, from Plymouth Rocks and Orpingtons to Welsummers and Silkies, this collection of quotes and proverbs will steal any chicken lover's heart.
£8.99
Ubiquitous Publishing Conures as Pets
£10.77
Scott & Nix, Inc American Birding Association Field Guide to the
Book SynopsisFrom the tiny rufous hummingbird to the majestic bald eagle, Colorado is home to more than 496 types of birds, making it one of the finest birding destinations in the world. Preserved habitats created by local, state, and national authorities have helped foster and protect nesting sites for hundreds of species, 235 of which are featured in their natural habitats, from Great Plains to Rocky Mountains, in this ornithological guide. The birds are organized by type from waterfowl to finches and appear in beautiful color photographs accompanied by clear and concise introductions, identification tips, and habitat and birdsong descriptions. The book also includes a complete state bird checklist and a directory of birding destinations, making this field guide the perfect companion for anyone interested in learning more about the natural history of Colorado and the diversity of the state’s birds and where to see them.
£19.76
Scott & Nix, Inc American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds
Book SynopsisCalifornia has it all for birders—lush coastal coniferous forests, dry chaparral, oak woodlands, grasslands, alpine slides, riparian valleys, watered suburbs, and desert scrubs. Hundreds of types of birds nest in the Golden State or stop by seasonally on migration routes. California has one of the largest state and federal parks programs, as well as extensive protected wildlife areas, which preserve and protect bird habitats. From geese and ducks, herons and storks, eagles, hawks, and owls to hummingbirds, warblers, and sparrows, California is one of the finest birding destinations on earth. The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of California includes more than 300 species birders are most likely to see in the state. Illustrated with nearly 450 crisp, color photographs, it includes clearly written descriptions along with tips of when and where to see birds penned by an expert Californian birder. It's the perfect companion for anyone interested in the amazing diversity and beauty of California's birds.
£19.76
