The SMALLHOLDER BOOKSHOP Farming Books and DVDs

POULTRY & OTHER BIRDS &	Price
Bantams
Bantams in Colour Roberts DFR Pb 68pp	£ 8.50

Bantams a Guide to Keeping, Breeding & Showing Hb 160pp This one-stop guide covers: · All aspects of housing with reference to open runs, penning sheds, light, ventilation and suitable flooring. · Feeding including basic rations for birds from one day to sixteen weeks, grit, water, greenstuffs and supplements. · Breeding, rearing and hatching. · Showing and preparation, including egg competitions and the ringing scheme. · Health, hygiene, ailments and diseases. Includes 97 b&w photos, 15 line drawings, 20 colour photos.	£19.95
A History of Bantams Kay Scribblers Pb 96pp	£ 7.99
Starting with Bantams Scrivenor BLP Pb 96pp	£ 7.95

Chickens
Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens Aad Rijs, Esther Verhoef-Verhallen Hb 336pp This huge and comprehensive book contains everything you need to know about caring for, housing, breeding, and feeding chickens.and is one of our best sellers.	£14.99
Best Hens For You Popesqu Cavalier Pb 160pp Would you like to keep hens in your garden? There is little more satisfying than fresh eggs straight from the nest box; hens make great pets with their different personalities and are great fun to watch. Building on the success of her Hens in the Garden, Eggs in the Kitchen book, Charlotte Popescu explores which breeds will be most suitable for a family garden. There are many varieties to look at but you have to decide on the size, shape and colour as well as how many to start with and whether you want hens mainly for egg production or more as pets. Eggs will also vary in size and colour. This book explains the difference between pure breeds, hybrids and cross breeds and give you lots of information on the most popular varieties from Sussex , Silkie , Rhode Island Red and Wyandotte to the little Pekin or the popular hybrid, Black Rock.	£ 6.99
British Large Fowl Roberts DFT Pb 79pp	£ 8.50
Chickens at Home Roberts DFT Pb 79pp	£ 7.99
Exhibition Poultry Keeping: Scrivener Crowood Hb 194pp	£19.95
Modern Free Range Roberts DFT Pb 54pp A practical guide for the small farmer on free range egg production and sales. There are chapters on integration with other farming interests, costs of 100 bird units, marketing and regulations, types of housing, fencing, feeding, lighting, general management, diseases and ailments.	£ 7.99
Poultry Twinch Crowood Pb 122pp Aimed at smallholders, hobbyists and enthusiasts, this book is designed to cater for the needs of those who have only limited resources, both in time and money. It offers comprehensive information on breeds, stock selection, housing and equipment, and shows how the use of controlled artificial lighting can increase egg production. Advice on breeding, health and disease make the book valuable reading to both commercial keepers and those interested in showing.	£ 9.99
Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens Damerow Storey Pb 352pp New Storey's Guide to Raising Series brings you the most up-to-date information on raising cattle, goats, ducks, horses, llamas, pigs, rabbits, sheep, chickens, turkeys, and poultry. Whether you are a novice farmer or an experienced pro, you will find everything you need to know to keep your livestock and profits	£15.99
Mini Encyclopedia Chickens Bassom Interpet Pb 198pp A colour directory of breeds of chickens and their care	£10.99
Poultry for Anyone Roberts Whittet Hb 143pp	£19.99
Practical Poultry Keeping Bland Crowood Hb 159pp Practical Poultry Keeping is a clear, in-depth guide to this topical subject that will enable anyone to keep poultry for pleasure or profit. Fully illustrated throughout with photographs and explanatory line-drawings, it includes: poultry breeds and uses; poultry housing and equipment; breeding and sexing birds; common problems with eggs; natural and artificial incubation and rearing; nutrition and diet; rearing birds for the table; effective planning, management and marketing and recognizing and preventing common diseases.	£14.99
Profitable Free Range Egg Production Dennett Crowood Hb	£10.99
21st Century Poultry Breeding Brerton Golden Cockerel Pb 142pp In in depth guide to how plumage patterns work, beautifully illustrated with over 240 colour photographs. Amongst other things, this book describes some of the most popular breeds, and covers breeding in numbers, hatching large fowl early, sex linkage, creating new colours, hen feathering and egg shell colours, as well as a lot more.	£12.99
Keeping Pet Chickens Paul & Windam Interpet Hb 64pp	£ 6.99
Poultry Health & Management Sainsbury Blackwell Pb 214pp	£24.95
Starting with Chickens Thear Broad Leys Pb 96pp	£ 6.95
*Videos>* Keeping Hens in your Garden DVD 70 Mins	£17.99
Health and Breeding	Price
A Guide to Better Hatching Stromberg Pb 100pp Considered one of the best books ever published on the subject of hatching, this book includes information on all aspects, including structure and formation of the egg, incubation, fertility management, etc.	£ 6.95
Incubation, a Guide to Hatching Thear FP 96pp	£ 6.95
Plain & Simple Egg Production Twinch SPL Pb 36pp	£ 3.75
Sexing All Fowl Stromberg Pb 96pp This has long been considered the most helpful book ever published on determining the sex of adults and chicks of many species of fowl, game birds, and cage birds. A worthwhile addition to the library of any beginning to expert breeder.	£ 8.95
Waterfowl
The Book of Geese Holderead Hen House Pb 209pp A complete guide to raising the home flock.	£10.75
British Waterfowl Standards Ashton BWA Hb 115pp From its inauguration (as The Waterfowl Club) in 1887, the British Waterfowl Association has continued to play the key role in producing the Waterfowl Standards, from the first Indian Runner Standard of 1901 to this 2008 edition. The new edition contains major revisions in format, terminology, historical information and structure, including graded judging defects and colour genotypes.	£25.00
Call & Other Bantam Ducks Terry etc Scribblers Hb 168pp	£14.95
Domestic Ducks & Geese in Colour Roberts DFT Pb 56pp	£ 8.00
Ducks & Geese at Home Roberts DFT Pb 55pp If you want to keep a few ducks or geese, this is the book for you. There are chapters on the different breeds, marketing ducks and geese, breeding, different methods of keeping ducks and geese, hatching and rearing, general management, exhibition and diseases and ailments .	£ 7.99
Ducks, Geese & Turkeys For Anyone Roberts Whittet Hb 128pp Description of 20 breeds of duck, 12 geese, 10 turkey colours, with history of the breed, its utility, special requirements and what makes a good bird. Follows the success of Poultry for Anyone by same author. ‘ ...as usual, Victoria Roberts has produced a concise, informative and essentially readable book which will be of value to anyone with an interest in this group of birds - and not least those contemplating acquiring stock.’ - Cage and Aviary Birds. 75 colour photographs. A beautiful book.	£19.99
The Indian Runner Ducks Barnes Ashton Hb 202pp	£25.00
The New Duck Handbook Raethel Barrons Pb 96pp Ducks can either be kept as pets or raised as farm animals. Duck owners will find all the facts they need on housing, feeding, health care, and more. Barron’s Pet Handbooks can be thought of as extra-large versions of our popular Pet Owner’s Manual series. The Handbooks have larger page counts, more color photos, and contain even more information on pet care than the Manuals. Written by breeders, veterinarians, and other pet care experts, they describe their title-animal’s traits and present advice on feeding, health maintenance, and all other important aspects of animal care.	£ 7.99
Guide to Raising Ducks Storey Pb	£15.99
Starting with Ducks Thear Broad Leys Pb 96pp Anyone who keeps ducks, or fancies keeping ducks in the future, will find this book extremely useful and full of practical advice and tips. It covers virtually every aspect the duck owner needs to know - where to keep your ducks, what to feed your ducks, what various ailments and problems are and what you can do about them. This book covers everything you'd ever need to know to keep your ducks fit and healthy and is great value for money.	£ 7.95
Starting with Geese Thear BLP Pb 96pp As above but with the same author's attention turned to Geese.	£ 7.95

*Video>* Keeping Ducks Bartlett FP 50 mins DVD	£17.99
Other Birds
Pigeons, Doves & Dovecotes Roberts DFR Pb 84pp	£ 8.50
Peacocks Past & Present Roberts Golden Cockerel PB 66PP	£ 9.00
Falconry Reflections Dalton FP Hb 144pp	£16.95
Turkeys , a Guide to Management Bland Crowood Hb 128pp	£10.99
Starting With Turkeys Thear BLP Pb 96pp	£ 7.95
Keeping Quail Thear BLP Pb 96pp This new edition, with its colour photographs, provides an up-to-date and practical coverage of the selection, housing, feeding, breeding and breed development of Coturnix and aviary breeds of quail. Large and small breeders will find it invaluable. More than 40 colour photographs. Mono photos and line drawings.	£ 7.95
Quail Past & Present Roberts GCS Pb 88pp Coturnix Quail, their history and management for hobby and profit.	£ 9.00
D.I.Y. Poultry Construction
Making Mobile Hen Houses Roberts GC Pb 128pp This book is a sequel to Poultry House Construction and ideally should be read in conjunction with it. There are descriptions of 8 different methods of mobilising hen houses, 3 fold units, 2 large free range houses, a broody coop, a sound moderated house, an urban poultry house, a wheelchair user's poultry house, 2 shelters, a rollaway nest box, a 6ft run and 6ft and 10ft sections. All are accompanied with numerous photographs and detailed plans.	£ 9.99
Poultry House Construction Roberts GC Pb 92pp This is a D.I.Y. guide to building houses and allied equipment such as show boxes, free range feeder, trap nest boxes. There are 13 projects, all with photographs of the finished article and diagrams with measurements of all the panels or sections; very easy to follow and to make. Projects include: Bantam House, 8ft Run, 6 or 8ft Ark , Eight or Ten Hen Coop and Poultry Palace. Other chapters include Housing Criteria, Tools Required and Timber Treatment.	£ 9.99
Build Your Own Poultry House and Run BLP Simple but extensive plans for small chicken coops & bantam houses.	£ 3.00

Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens Aad Rijs, Esther Verhoef-Verhallen Hb 336pp

This huge and comprehensive book contains everything you need to know about caring for, housing, breeding, and feeding chickens.and is one of our best sellers.