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Paul Peacock shows you how to: find the best poultry for the small garden and house them properly, feed your birds, tune in to their daily needs and enjoy your own eggs; avoid annoying the neighbours by showing that it is possible to keep poultry without attracting unwelcome pests; recognise healthy happy birds and learn their daily routine; recognise poorly hens; treat them or get help; and, incubate and care for fertilised eggs and raise chicks.

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'The Urban Hen takes you step by step through everything you will ever need to know about keeping hens. We thoroughly recommend this book to any one thinking about keeping chickens. It highlights the difficulties and the advantages in very clear terms. And if you decide to keep chickens then this book has everything you need to feed and care for them.' www.gardenaction.co.uk. 'Will show gardeners everything they need to know about joys and responsibilities of keeping chickens.' Garden Retail. The perfect companion for the city poultry keeper.' Country Smallholding. 'Julie Deborah Walton had to write to congratulate you on your URBAN HEN book, ive got more or less every chicken book on the planet, but yours tops the lot! Its humorous, very intersting and informative. The straight talking no nonsense approach to the book i love, would definitely recommend to a friend!!!! I hope you will autograph it for me one day??.'

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PAUL PEACOCK has himself kept chickenss - sometimes in small, urban spaces - and has written numerous books and articles on the subject. Paul owns the successful City Cottage online magazine, is a published expert on gardening and smallholding and advises a major city council on public beekeeping. Paul also writes for the Daily Mirror as Mr Digwell.

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