Backyard Chickens, Ducks and Quails: A Beginner's Guide to Keeping Low-Maintenance Urban Flocks - 3 books in 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798548212047)

Backyard Chicken Book offers a great help for anyone wanting to keep chickens at home, whether for eggs, meat or entertainment. It provides detailed information on how to raise happy, healthy and productive hens. The book will teach you all you need to know to successfully keep chickens in your backyard and enjoy its wonderful benefits. The early parts share the necessary things such as; how to build a chicken coop that is suitable for any climate. You'll also learn how to select top chicken breed ideal for your backyard and nurturing them from chicks into an adult state.

This massive guide also provides vital information about feeding your chickens for optimal health and production; using the right food thus creating the best conditions for healthy hens.

Later chapters deal with general work like handling chicken health problems and how to deal with the nasty issue of predators. The concluding chapter wraps up with what you need to raise happy chickens.

Backyard Duck book covers all aspects of backyard duck raising from selecting a breed and buying ducks to housing, feeding, and health. It includes a description of the common breed suitable for any backyard. The peculiarity of each breed, their egg-laying capacity and their potential as table birds are critically examined. It also contains a comprehensive section on incubation of eggs both natural and artificial methods. You will also learn how to protect your flocks from predators.

Backyard duck homesteaders and hobby farmers will find this book an enjoyable and useful resource; it will make your duck raising adventure a profitable experience.

Raising quail is easy; they don't require much space, time, or resources like chickens. You can raise them in an area such as a backyard, patio, or even balcony. They are less than half the size of chickens and offer almost the same benefits as chickens.

This book shares a wealth of valuable information covering all important areas in keeping quail. What you will learn include

- Issues regarding raising backyard quail flock

-Quail food and nutritional requirements.

- How to incubate and hatch your quail eggs

- Understanding Quail Behavior

- Effective ways of handling quail diseases. Quail housing plans

- Controlling Quail Predators

- Benefits of Raising Quail in the (Urban) Homestead

- How to Make Money with Quail on your Homestead

And lots more