Ornamental Poultry Keeping

About This Guide

Beautiful birds that pay their way.

Fancy chickens such as Brahma, Silkie, Polish and bantams sell for many times the price of ordinary chickens. This guide shows you how to choose breeds, house them, keep pure lines, hatch and rear chicks, prevent disease and find buyers, with drawings, breeding plans, incubation charts and record sheets.

How to use this guide

• Read Chapters 1 - 3 before you buy birds.
• Use Chapters 4 - 6 to plan breeding, hatching and rearing.
• Follow Chapters 7 - 8 for feeding and health all year.
• Use Chapter 9 and the record sheets to run it as a business.

What You'll Learn

• 1Why Keep Ornamental Poultry?
• 2Popular Breeds in Kenya
• 3Housing and Runs
• 4Breeding and Keeping Pure Lines
• 5Hatching Eggs
• 6Brooding and Rearing Chicks
• 7Feeding
• 8Keeping Your Birds Healthy
• 9Selecting and Presenting Birds
• 10Selling and Making Money

Also inside: A: Record Sheets; B: Quick Reference.