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Date de parution
30 janvier 2012
Nombre de lectures
1
EAN13
9781781660157
Langue
English
Title Page
GREAT EGGSPECTATIONS?
A dozen questions to help you decide whether keeping chickens is right for you
By
Rus Slater
Publisher Information
Great Eggspectations published in 2012 by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
The characters and situations in this book are entirely imaginary and bear no relation to any real person or actual happening.
Copyright © Rus Slater
The right of Rus Slater to be identified as author of this book has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988.
About the Author
Rus Slater is not a chicken farmer or a vet. He and his wife both have jobs to do during the week but decided three years ago to get some chickens. Their little flock has grown. This is not a definitive guide to keeping chickens: it is a decision making tool to help you to understand the commitments and the joys of chicken custodianship, to help you make an informed decision as to whether chickens are right for you. It is based on real experience.
Introduction
Keeping chickens is reportedly one of the fastest growing leisure activities in the uk today. This little guide has been written to help you to make an informed decision as to whether this is the hobby for you. There are a dozen questions embedded in the guide....if you answer “yes” to each one then buying a little flock of chickens could be a good move.
If you answer “no” to any of them....think again.
Just before we get into the subject proper, lets just answer that question of which came first, the chicken or the egg......chickens are birds and birds evolved from dinosaurs, dinosaurs were reptiles and reptiles lay eggs.... therefore it is clear that the egg came first!
And whilst we are on the subject of eggs lets just have a quick biology lesson; there are two types of egg: the type that can hatch into a sweet and fluffy chick and the type that can’t. Only if you want the former do you need a daddy chicken, a “rooster”, “cockerel” or “cock”. If all you want is eggs to eat you don’t need a rooster, hens will lay eggs without a man about the house.
Strangely lots of people don’t seem aware of this simple fact and presume that keeping chickens must mean “cock a doodle do” at 4 am every day.
Motivation
