Chicken Manual: The Complete Step-by-step Guide to Keeping Chickens (Haynes Manuals) Hardcover – 4 Feb. 2010

Excellent. Both informative and practical.

Despite having reared hens for many years, it is always sensible to consolidate that knowledge with new information. More recent research demonstrates happy healthy hens are those that are free range and fed organic feed. GMO produce always lacks nutrition. This text succinctly covers the basics required for caring for healthy happy hens and excellent quality pròduce . Beautiful photographs accompanied by up to date information and links to more detailed information make this a good allround tèxt. l highly recommend this text .Beautifully illustrated, çomprehensive - a good read.

Great book for anyone interested in raising chickens or just looking after their chickens better full of information and advice on how to make their and your life’s better and happier 🐓🐓

This book was bought with another on the same topic. This is my least favourite as it larger to handle with the hard back and I felt at one point, I was looking at one of the well known car manuals.However the photographs are clear and informative, the book overall, is bright and attractive, I would reccommend that prospective chicken keepers continue to research the various literature that is out there, I will however use this book for reference.

Very informative book

I bought this book along with another, "The Urban Hen" - this is by far the best though! It looks like a traditional car manual, some friends have even laughed at it!, but it does cover everything you need to know and will probably ever need to know about chickens. I was a total novice when I got this, but it really did prepare me for getting our first 3 hens. It's in clear sections/chapters with more advanced chapters for the more advanced chicken keeper! It has fantastic, helpful photographs all the way through, including an excellent section (though not exhaustive)on breeds. It goes into great detail on health problems, and again the photos are particularly helpful if you're a newbie like me! I would definitely recommend buying this - yes it is fairly advanced in parts, but you can dip into the sections you need and leave the more advanced til you need them. (I hopefully won't be needing the 'Dispatching' section...!)

Halfords sell Books to repair your car and are famous for that. The shop assistants are unaware of the Chicken Manual or the Bee Keeping Manual which they also sell fantastic Manuals a must for hen keepers as is the Bee Manual.I bought mine on line £17.00Allister Guy

As an informative book for a gift to a new chicken keeper