You need to read this book! Backyard Chicken handbook, for keeping your birds and healthy.Thinking about raising chickens? Whether you're a first-timer or you've been raising chickens for years?You have come to the right place!.This new edition of Backyard chicken handbook provides the most recent up -to- dates detail information on the many aspects of keeping chickens in your backyard.Inside the book, you will find hand- on follow instruction figures and pictures, right from choosing and purchasing chickens, construction coop for your birds offer practical advice and help you by providing tips on feeding, including top tips for raising healthy chickens. The book contains the following chapters; CHAPTER ONE ANATOMY OVERVIEW OF A CHICKEN CHAPTER TWO The types of chicken production systems Chicken production sytems CHAPTER THREE The good management of free-range and small-scale confined poultry units CHAPTER FOUR How to understand poultry behaviour CHAPTER FIVE Method of natural incubation and hatching How to improve selection CHAPTER SIX Animal Selection CHAPTER SEVEN The nests CHAPTER EIGHT Feeds and Feeding CHAPTER NINE Health and Disease Management of poultry Key to diseases catagorization 5. Nutritional deficiency diseases Book review by Dr, Smith Jackson For over 35 years of veterinary practiced. I work with many poultry farms and backyard farmers. I am often asked severally, what books could I recommend to help them to learn, the best management and gain better understanding of keeping birds healthy and productive. I have been unable to help them much with their requests, as most of the text on are written for veterinarians and large-scale poultry farmers.With limited usefulness to a layperson.Few books are available for the fancier, and those that I have seen are generally incomplete and not accurate. However, I am delighted to see this publication is made available to the poultry fanciers.Philip Kansas Perry has covered the all the topic related to the keeping your birds healthy and productive for better management very competently and completely.Dr. Philip k. Perry has also presented his information in a quite accessible format for the fancier to understand. Prevention of diseases through good management is essential when raising poultry, especially the backyard birds, which are not always vaccinated for many of the diseases. Having a book such as this which outlined good management strategies as well as diseases prevention is a valuable asset to the poultry fancier.I believe the best use of this book is to read it through for the diseases prevention management information.Implement whatever management practices that you are not already using.Then keep the book handy as a reference if you observed any disease problem with your chicken refer to it. Dr. Smith Jackson Avian Health services 3220 Quail Drive, Placerville CA95667 BUY NOW.