A comprehensive and readable guide to keeping chicken and other breeds of poultry, ideal for amateurs and newcomers. Also features information on ducks, geese and turkeys.

• Intro:: short history of poultry
• 1.: Chickens
• 2.: Ducks
• 3.: Geese
• 4.: Turkeys
• 5.: Other birds: Guineafowl and Quail
• : 6.      Meat production
• : 7.      Diseases and problems: quick reference chart
• 8.: Egg recipes
• : Appendices
• • : Vermin control
  • : Transport regulations
  • : Exhibiting
  • : Troubleshooting
• : Glossary
• : Useful addresses
• : Further reading
• : Index

Victoria Roberts, BVSc MRCVS, is the Honorary Veterinary Surgeon for the Poultry Club and demonstrates her considerate poultry expertise in five books on keeping chickens as well as in her position as editor of the Poultry Club newsletter.