Raising Chickens for Eggs and Meat

Whether you just want your breakfast eggs fresh from the nest box or want to savor a most succulent and tasty roast chicken dinner, made all the more enjoyable because you know that the bird had a good life, this realistic and honest no-nonsense guide will help you to achieve both. Enjoy eggs both fresher and tastier than any you can buy in the supermarket and truly free range table birds to feed your family. Raising Chickens For Eggs and Meat covers all aspects of looking after your chickens, from the joys of seeing your first chicks hatch, to finally seeing them safely and humanely dispatched. It intentionally avoids the rose tinted image of keeping chickens and tells it ‘how it is,’ for example, how to introduce them to the family pet, and how to keep them safe from foxes and vermin. This book also covers illness and death and culling and butchering: making sure that it is realistic in that it makes sure that any prospective chicken keeper is fully aware of their responsibilities to their birds.