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Jackie French’s Chook Book
Completely revised and expanded edition 2010 (AUS)
From the popular radio and TV gardening personality, author and Earth Garden columnist comes this great all-round handbook on keeping chickens. Jackie French loves chooks and knows a lot about them. In this handy book, she covers just about everything you need to know to keep chickens, from health, housing and feeding to breeding. There are plenty of practical solutions to the problems a new chook keeper might face – should I let my chooks free-range? How can I stop them scratching up the neighbour’s yard? Should I keep a rooster? There are chapters of recipes for egg and chicken dishes as well as ideas for chook “extras” like feather quilts. The book includes colour photographs of various chicken breeds and chook housing ideas. A very readable, informative and funny book. 196pp

BC139

Backyard Poultry - Naturally
Alanna Moore 2004 New Edition (AUS)
Anexcellent resource, both entertaining and informative, providing all the information needed to raise healthy poultry without using harmful chemicals. It covers breeds, housing, breeding, feeding, herbal medicines and permaculture and poultry. 151 pp

BB100

Chook Wisdom
Earth Garden Publication 2007 (AUS)
Chooks are an essential element in many backyard gardens, whether you keep chooks for eggs, meat, as garden assistants or pets. Here is a collection of articles from chook lovers covering a wide range of subjects. Learn how to build a chicken tractor; all about Marek’s Disease; how to use chook manure in your garden and plenty of other useful advice. There’s a four-page gallery of photos of Australia’s most popular backyard chook breeds. Of course there are also lots of great photos and stories about life with chooks. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. 80pp

BC117

Keeping Chickens: An Australian Guide
2007 (AUS)
This is an excellent book for anyone starting out with poultry. From “10 Steps to Keeping Chickens” to plans for your chicken coop, here is all the information you need to keep chooks in your backyard. Includes descriptions of over thirty different breeds including number of eggs per year, temperament and particular needs. There are chapters on feeding and watering, diseases and health, breeding and preparing your chickens for show. 138pp

BK104

Lucky Ducks: Companions in the Organic Garden
Phoebe Thorndyke 2001 (AUS)
A very readable book about the pleasure to be found in duck keeping on a small suburban block and the invaluable aid that ducks can bring to any organic gardener. It covers feeding, water and ponds, shelter, predators and everything you would want to know to keep happy and healthy ducks. 107pp

BL101 Now reduced from $20.00

More Chook Wisdom
Earth Garden Publications 2011 (AUS)
Have you ever idly daydreamed about keeping a few chooks in the back yard? Maybe you remember from your childhood how delightful it is to watch their antics, collect their eggs, and have them as part of your lifestyle? With this companion volume to the highly-successful 'Chook Wisdom' you can start your chook adventure from "scratch" or expand on your knowledge, inspiration and ideas for keeping chooks.
Now is the perfect time to bring chooks into your days. The rewards are great. Chooks are cheap and simple to keep, and they'll enrich your back yard soil, your recipes, and your back yard entertainment for years to come.
In this collection of articles from chook fanciers, you'll find ideas and inspiration about how to set up for your suburban backyard flock, including how big a coop you'll need, what to feed your chooks and what plants you can grow for their health. Useful tips from this collection of people "living the chook lifestyle" include recycling containers for food and water, designs for chook runs, how to build a chook tractor, making a broody box, dealing with a glut of eggs, raising chicks and broody hens, dealing with ticks and lice and much more.
Editor Alan Gray says "The gentle cycle of dependence between humans and chooks is a heart-warming reminder that however busy, sophisticated and tech-dependent our modern lifestyles become, we can always wander into the backyard and reconnect with a tradition that has been unbroken for ten thousand years." 80 pages full colour.

BM112