What Your Chickens Want You to Know
Backyard chicken-keeping in Aotearoa
Dr Andrea Graves
This book is the ideal handbook for anyone who already raises chickens at home or would really like to. Andrea Graves has a doctorate in animal behaviour science, and using this knowledge, as well as her practical experience with keeping chickens, she has developed an approach to keeping happy, healthy chickens that aligns with their primal instincts. Written specifically for New Zealanders, this readable and entertaining guide brings together the best contemporary knowledge about keeping chickens, a must-read for anyone with, or considering keeping chickens in the backyard.
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This book is the ideal handbook for anyone who already has chickens or would really like them. Andrea Graves has a doctorate in animal behaviour science, and using this knowledge, as well as her practical experience with keeping chickens, she has developed an approach to keeping happy, healthy chickens that aligns with their primal instincts. In this book the reader will learn how to fit chickens into your backyard, even if it is small, satisfy their foraging obsessions, provide what they need to stay happy and healthy, manage their social lives and use them to grow healthy food. Written specifically for New Zealanders, this readable and entertaining guide brings together the best contemporary knowledge about keeping chickens, a must-read for anyone with, or considering getting, chickens.
Additional information
Weight | .515 kg |
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ISBN | 9781988550411 |
Pages | 200 |
Size | 210 x 145 mm |
Format | Paperback |
Author | Dr Andrea Graves |
Published | October 2022 |
View Andrea Graves’s interview on The Project
Read interview in Life & Style section in Stuff
Read review in Good magazine
Read Q & A in Stuff
Listen to Andrea’s interview on RNZ Nine to Noon
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