Author(s): Andrea Graves

Animals

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.