Dave Ingham

Gebundenes Buch

Backyard Chickens

How to keep happy hens

Beschreibung

Chickens are great backyard pets for young and old and a natural extension for anyone who has a veggie patch. This book is a perfect reference for those already keeping chickens in the backyard or a perfect gift for the absolute beginner thinking about getting a few chooks. Dave Ingham (no relation to the food brand!) is the resident hen keeping expert on radio 702 Weekends with Simon Marnie, and runs Rent-a-chook, selling chickens coops and offering try-before-you-buy mini hen houses to Sydneysiders since 2001. Dave first got into hen keeping as an impoverished university student, when he and his mates planted a mega veggie garden - chickens were a natural extension. With home brewed beer, plentiful free vegetables and eggs, those students ate far better than their penury would otherwise have allowed. Some years, many chooks and a few houses later, Dave was invited to speak at a sustainability project about what he'd done to make his house more environmentally friendly. He was waxing lyrical about the benefits of keeping chickens and, on a whim, offered to lend an old coop and couple of hens to one of the group to try out. A no-commitment trial of chooks. Go on, give it a go! Somebody coined the term Dave's Rent-a-chook and it went from there. Since establishing Rent-a-chook in 2001, Dave has seen hen keeping go from a hippie pursuit to something very common and entirely mainstream.

Autor

Dave Ingham (no relation to the food brand!) is the resident hen keeping expert on radio 702 Weekends with Simon Marnie, and runs Rent-a-chook, selling chickens coops and offering try-before-you-buy mini hen houses to Sydneysiders since 2001. Dave first got into hen keeping as an impoverished university student, when he and his mates planted a mega veggie garden - chickens were a natural extension. With home brewed beer, plentiful free vegetables and eggs, those students ate far better than their penury would otherwise have allowed. Some years, many chooks and a few houses later, Dave was invited to speak at a sustainability project about what he'd done to make his house more environmentally friendly. He was waxing lyrical about the benefits of keeping chickens and, on a whim, offered to lend an old coop and couple of hens to one of the group to try out. A no-commitment trial of chooks. Go on, give it a go! Somebody coined the term Dave's Rent-a-chook and it went from there. Since establishing Rent-a-chook in 2001, Dave has seen hen keeping go from a hippie pursuit to something very common and entirely mainstream. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Murdoch Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9781743367551
• ISBN-10: 1743367554
• Artikelnr.: 47149844