books about chicken diseases
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:18 pm
Can anyone recommend a really good book on chicken diseases, preferably one with a chart of symptoms to aid diagnosis?
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:36 pm
Have you tried Katie Thear?
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:36 pm
Not a book as such but have you tried the Practical Poultry Forums:
http://www.practicalpoultry.co.uk
They have a great community that will help.
Jerry
http://www.practicalpoultry.co.uk
They have a great community that will help.
Jerry
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:22 pm
Hello Fen
There is book in the Gold Cockerel Series - 'Poultry and Waterfowl Problems' by Michael Roberts - that covers all the more common problems of poultry in a veterinary style. It also covers problems caused by common management faults. Costs about £8.
The book for serious chicken keepers though must be 'Diseases of Free-range Poultry' by Victoria Roberts, who is a vet. A very thorough book but probably far too much for those of us with just a few hens running around at the bottom of the garden. Its about twice the price of the other book.
I agree with Jerry about the Practical Poultry mag's forum. There's a very active community there full of ideas on every conceivable chicken problem. Its a pity that this new version of KG forum hasn't developed in the same way.
John
There is book in the Gold Cockerel Series - 'Poultry and Waterfowl Problems' by Michael Roberts - that covers all the more common problems of poultry in a veterinary style. It also covers problems caused by common management faults. Costs about £8.
The book for serious chicken keepers though must be 'Diseases of Free-range Poultry' by Victoria Roberts, who is a vet. A very thorough book but probably far too much for those of us with just a few hens running around at the bottom of the garden. Its about twice the price of the other book.
I agree with Jerry about the Practical Poultry mag's forum. There's a very active community there full of ideas on every conceivable chicken problem. Its a pity that this new version of KG forum hasn't developed in the same way.
John
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:47 pm
John
I believe plans are afoot. There is a planed move to new servers and new forums should follow soon after increasing the value of the overall resource, remember the new format here is still in it's infancy and is a far better set up than the old old one.
All IMHO of course.
Regards
Jerry
I believe plans are afoot. There is a planed move to new servers and new forums should follow soon after increasing the value of the overall resource, remember the new format here is still in it's infancy and is a far better set up than the old old one.
All IMHO of course.
Regards
Jerry
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:47 pm
Yes - 'Diseases of Free-Range Poultry' is a fantastic book - albeit a bit scary 
Another good book is 'The Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens' by Esther Verhoef and Aad Rijs.
Another good book is 'The Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens' by Esther Verhoef and Aad Rijs.
thanks
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:45 am
thank you for the advice, I'll check out the forum and splash some cash on Amazon