Bird Keeping & Breeding: Books, CDs and DVDs - Germany

The Complete Guide to Raising Pet Birds for Profit: The Greatest Backyard Business Ever

A practical guide for the pet lover who wishes to make an income breeding, raising and selling small pet birds.

The book explains how to make an excellent income, either part-time or full-time breeding the most popular species of pet birds. Many breeders using these methods make from $500 to $2000 monthly on a part-time basis while full timers make much more.

It is a must have book if you enjoy breeding birds and would like to make a profit while doing something that you truly enjoy.

Ratings: 5 out of 5

You will learn how you can live anywhere and ship your birds to the nationwide market. The book is actually 6 books in one. It completely covers both cage and colony breeding methods of parakeets, cockatiels, lovebirds and finches, as well as marketing and shipping. Additionally, three chapters completely cover how to become a wholesale distributor of pet birds, which can be a very lucrative business.

Although the book was written with the pet lover in mind that wishes to make an income breeding birds, there is a tremendous amount of information in the book that the hobbyist will find useful as well. Many management tips and pointers can be used by the beginner as well as the experienced person to increase yearly production, thus increasing profits.

As a well known animal lover, author James McDonald sold approximately one million exotic birds before his retirement and he reminds the readers of the moral obligations and responsibilities of animal ownership and encourages the reader to always accept those responsibilities by providing humane and adequate care for their birds at all times.

A Guide To Asiatic Parrots Their Mutations, Care & Breeding

This complete revision of 'A Guide to Asiatic Parrots in Australia' sees the addition of over 70 new colour images of new mutations, and improved text including new genetic tables and more information on nutrition, housing and breeding.

Contents include general management, housing, feeding, breeding, keeping records, ringing, stock management, pairing and mating, handraising asiatic parrots, surgical sexing, diseases of asiatic parrots, common health problems in asiatic parrots, prevention and control of disease within the aviary, stress and disease, basic rules used to prevent disease entering an aviary, recognising disease, health check of newly acquired birds, physical examination, quarantine of new birds, worm infestation and treatment.

Species include the Indian Ringnecked Parrot and their many mutations, the Alexandrine, Plum-headed, Derbyan, Malabar, Slatey-headed, Moustache, Malayan Long-tailed and Blossom-headed Parrot.

Ratings: 5 out of 5

Breeding Exotic Birds: A Beginner's Guide

Ratings: 5 out of 5

Psittaculture: Breeding, Rearing and Management of Parrots

The Large Macaws: Their Care, Breeding, and Conservation

Ratings: 5 out of 5

Psittacine Aviculture: Perspectives, Techniques and Research

Review: An excellent book for the advanced aviculturists who needs a deeper perspective into the topic matter.

Ratings: 5 out of 5

The Parrot Breeder's Answer Book

This unusual book is a detailed guide for the parrot owner who wants to breed the birds but has no prior experience.

The author, an experienced breeder, covers all of the basics in layman's terminology, and points out both the rewards and pitfalls connected with parrot breeding.

Topics covered include who should (and who should not) breed parrots, obtaining breeding stock, providing housing and supplies for a parrot flock, maintaining flock health, avian reproduction, incubation, rearing chicks, working with an avian veterinarian, and selling chicks.

The author concludes with a helpful list of information sources for parrot breeders. More than 60 full-color photos plus line art.

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5

Manual of Colour Breeding: Parakeets, Lovebirds, Cockatiels and Other Parrots Including Universal Breeding Programmes

The Parrot: A Guide to Selecting, Housing, Care, Nutrition, Behaviour, Health, Breeding and Mutations

Breeding Budgerigars

Ratings: 4 out of 5

Parrot Breeding (Hardcover) by Rosemary Low (Author)

Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds: Breeding, Hand-Feeding, Care, and Management by Ph.D., Matthew M. Vriends (Author)

Product Description

This book is for both amateur bird owners and professional breeders. It offers instructions on maintaining a bird nursery, keeping it heated and sanitary, and tending the chicks. Differing feed formulas are given for different species, including parrots, doves, finches, soft-billed birds, pheasants, and others. Advice pertains to correcting problems often suffered by baby birds, from dehydration and discolored feathers to viral, bacterial, and fungal infections.

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

All About Breeding Lovebirds

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

Breeding Lovebirds

Conures: Everything About Purchase, Housing, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Diseases

This popular breed of parrot is profiled with special attention to feeding, housing, and health care. There is also advice on how and where to buy a conure. Includes 50 full-color photographs and accurate, instructive line drawings.

Ratings: 3 out of 5

Lovebirds: Everything About Housing, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Diseases : With a Special Chapter, Understanding Lovebirds (A Complete Pet Owner's Manual)

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

A Guide To Eclectus Parrots: Their Management, Care and Breeding (Paperback)

Breeding Cage and Aviary Birds

Cockatoos: Acclimation, Care, Feeding, Sickness, and Breeding

Details the feeding, behavior, health, breeding, and care of cockatoos.

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

Cockatiels: Overcoming Problems in Their Care, Feeding and Breeding by Robert G. Black (Author)

An expert aviculturalist offers solutions to problems encountered in maintaining, feeding and breeding Cockatiels.

Cockatiels! Pets-Breeding-Showing

Ratings: 4 out of 5

All About Breeding Cockatiels

Breeding Colourful Little Grass Parakeets

Guide to Owning Amazon Parrots: Breeding, Feeding, Training, Habits, Health, Choosing

There are 27 species of parrots commonly called amazons, and this book explains how to properly care for them all. Readers learn how to house, feed, train, and recognize signs of good (and bad) health for these smart, long-lived birds. 55 full-color photos.

Ratings: 2 out of 5

A Guide to Australian Long & Broad Tailed Parrots & New Zealand Kakarikis. Their Management, Care and Breeding by Kevin Wilson (Author)

This full colour title presents the general management, housing, diet and nutrition, breeding and hand rearing of the Crimson-winged, Princess, Regent, Superb, King, Red-capped, Mallee Ringnecked, Cloncurry, Port Lincoln and Twenty-eight Parrot and the Red-fronted and Yellow-fronted Kakarikis.

Keeping and Breeding Parrots

Parrots for Pleasure and Profit - Their Breeding and Management

Contents Include:

Parrots for Pleasure and Profit - Grey Parrots - The Breeding of Hybrid Parrakeets - Six Popular Parrots - Some Facts about Macaws

A Guide To... Neophema & Psephotus Grass Parrots: Their Mutations, Care and Breeding (Paperback)

This revised edition features over 160 full colour images of new mutations, examples of breeding expectations, housing, feeding and management. Contents include Management, Housing, Feeding, Breeding, Hybridising, Ringing, Keeping Records and Surgical Sexing. Species include the Bourke's, Turquoise, Scarlet-chested, Elegant, Blue-winged, Rock, Orange-bellied, Red-rumped, Mulga, Blue-bonnet, Hooded, Golden-shouldered and Paradise Parrot.

The Evolution of Avian Breeding Systems (Oxford Ornithology Series)

Review: "David Ligon's book is a review of current knowledge about the factors causing variation in breeding systems in birds, strongly flavoured with historical information about the development of currently influential ideas. The book is also a review of current theories of sexual selection as they apply to birds . . . Ligon's approach is to treat different subject areas at length, reviewing classic studies and often discussing them in quite considerable detail. . . . For anyone interested in a detailed well-written summary of research in sexual selection in birds over the last 30 or so years, this book represents the best choice currently available . . . Ligon writes beautifully, if at times lengthily, and this book has very high production values. . . . [It] is much more enjoyable to read than most scientific monographs. For those wishing to be introduced to the study of sexual selection in birds, it will do an excellent job . . ."--Animal Behaviour

"Birds present what is perhaps the most striking and diverse array of ornamental traits found in animals ... Birds also possess a diverse array of mating systems, including social monogamy with or without genetic monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, lek promiscuity, and various forms of cooperative breeding. These two sets of phenomena are related, in that almost all ornamental traits function in mating, and both are treated in this book. ... For many years, the main thrust of research on avian mating systems has been to show how ecological conditions shape the evolution of particular systems. Ligon gives full play to these ecological hypotheses, while at the same time emphasizing the importance of an additional factor, namely history. ... Altogether, Ligon's thorough and thoughtful review of mating systems in birds ought to inject renewed vigor into this area of research."--The Quarterly Review of Biology

Product Description

Ever since Darwin, birds have provided much of the stimulus for the study of evolution and natural selection. This volume looks at three of the most fascinating aspects of their reproductive biology: sexual selection, parental care, and mating systems. It provides empirical assessments of the main theories of mate choice by females and examines numerous related topics.

The Complete Guide to Raising Pet Birds for Profit: The Greatest Backyard Business Ever

A practical guide for the pet lover who wishes to make an income breeding, raising and selling small pet birds.

The book explains how to make an excellent income, either part-time or full-time breeding the most popular species of pet birds. Many breeders using these methods make from $500 to $2000 monthly on a part-time basis while full timers make much more.

It is a must have book if you enjoy breeding birds and would like to make a profit while doing something that you truly enjoy.

Ratings: 5 out of 5

You will learn how you can live anywhere and ship your birds to the nationwide market. The book is actually 6 books in one. It completely covers both cage and colony breeding methods of parakeets, cockatiels, lovebirds and finches, as well as marketing and shipping. Additionally, three chapters completely cover how to become a wholesale distributor of pet birds, which can be a very lucrative business.

Although the book was written with the pet lover in mind that wishes to make an income breeding birds, there is a tremendous amount of information in the book that the hobbyist will find useful as well. Many management tips and pointers can be used by the beginner as well as the experienced person to increase yearly production, thus increasing profits.

As a well known animal lover, author James McDonald sold approximately one million exotic birds before his retirement and he reminds the readers of the moral obligations and responsibilities of animal ownership and encourages the reader to always accept those responsibilities by providing humane and adequate care for their birds at all times

The Practical Canary Handbook: A Guide to Breeding & Keeping Canaries

Whether you are a first time pet owner or an experienced breeder, this is the one reference you need on your bookshelf!

This book was written to provide novice canary fanciers with the practical, detailed information needed to be successful in caring for and breeding all types of canaries. Containing valuable information on canary selection, feeding, housing, health, breeding, and more, The Practical Canary Handbook is a truly unique guide to caring for these beautiful creatures. Special attention is given to the American Singer canary, which is one of the most popular breeds in the United States today.

You'll learn about basic canary care, what to feed (and not to feed) your birds, canary health issues, breeding (including the tips and tricks only experienced breeders know), how to care for your birds during the molt, exhibiting, what to look for in your canary's song, and much more.

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5

Zebra Finches: Everything About Housing, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Disease

Tells how to select, care for, breed, and house zebra finches, and discusses common illnesses and their treatment.

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5

Gouldian Finches: Everything About Purchase, Housing, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Diseases

Here's advice and valuable information on all aspects of feeding, housing, health care, and keeping a happy and healthy Gouldian Finch. Approximately 30 full-color photos and line drawings.

Ratings: 4 out of 5

Breeding Society Finches

Ratings: 4 out of 5

Breeding Cage and Aviary Birds

Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds: Breeding, Hand-Feeding, Care, and Management by Ph.D., Matthew M. Vriends (Author)

Product Description

This book is for both amateur bird owners and professional breeders. It offers instructions on maintaining a bird nursery, keeping it heated and sanitary, and tending the chicks. Differing feed formulas are given for different species, including parrots, doves, finches, soft-billed birds, pheasants, and others. Advice pertains to correcting problems often suffered by baby birds, from dehydration and discolored feathers to viral, bacterial, and fungal infections.

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

Canary Breeding for Beginners - A Practical Guide to the Cult of Canary Breeding, Designed Specially for the Use of the Beginner in the Hobby.

Contents Include: The Cages Considered - Perches and other Fitments - The Bird Room - The Bath - First Principles in Mating - Building the Home - The First Egg - Commencement of Incubation - Egg Food - At Close of Incubation - Feeding the Young Canaries - Plucking the Young - Young about to eave the Nest - Preparing for the Second and Third Nests - The Young when Weaned - The Moult - Moulting Cages - Training for Show

Ratings: 4 out of 5

The Roller Canary - Its History, Breeding, Training and Management

'In the case of the novice, the help and guidance gained from his fellow breeders who are familiar with the tours of the Roller will profitably be supplemented by what he finds here, and if, in the light of the explanations and definitions given him in this work, he studies his own birds at home and those of others he may meet, it will be a lasting source of pleasure to him.'

Contents Include: History - Colour Varieties - How to Establish a Strain - Selection of Breeding Stock - Roller Dietary - The Breeding Season - Song Inheritance - The Schoolmaster or Tutor - Preparations for Training Time - Training for Competitions - The Development of Song - The Song of the Roller - Judging Roller Canaries

The Complete Book of Finches and Softbills: Their Care and Breeding

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

All about Breeding Canaries ~ Mervin F. Roberts

Sexing all fowl, baby chicks, game birds, cage birds

This has long been considered the most helpful book ever published on determining the sex of adults and chicks of many species of fowl, game birds, and cage birds.

A worthwhile addition to the library of any beginning to expert breeder.

Canary Breeding by Claude St.John (Author)

Breeding Zebra Finches (Hardcover)

The Complete Guide to Raising Pet Birds for Profit: The Greatest Backyard Business Ever

A practical guide for the pet lover who wishes to make an income breeding, raising and selling small pet birds.

The book explains how to make an excellent income, either part-time or full-time breeding the most popular species of pet birds. Many breeders using these methods make from $500 to $2000 monthly on a part-time basis while full timers make much more.

It is a must have book if you enjoy breeding birds and would like to make a profit while doing something that you truly enjoy.

Ratings: 5 out of 5

You will learn how you can live anywhere and ship your birds to the nationwide market. The book is actually 6 books in one. It completely covers both cage and colony breeding methods of parakeets, cockatiels, lovebirds and finches, as well as marketing and shipping. Additionally, three chapters completely cover how to become a wholesale distributor of pet birds, which can be a very lucrative business.

Although the book was written with the pet lover in mind that wishes to make an income breeding birds, there is a tremendous amount of information in the book that the hobbyist will find useful as well. Many management tips and pointers can be used by the beginner as well as the experienced person to increase yearly production, thus increasing profits.

As a well known animal lover, author James McDonald sold approximately one million exotic birds before his retirement and he reminds the readers of the moral obligations and responsibilities of animal ownership and encourages the reader to always accept those responsibilities by providing humane and adequate care for their birds at all times.

Softbills: Care, Breeding and Conservation

Author Martin Vince offers an exhaustive volume about the biology and ecology of softbills -- small, flying birds that do not live on seeds, but on soft foods such as fruits, insects and meats. A practical and uniquely detailed book, it is based on the author's experience during twenty years of keeping and breeding a large range of softbills.

The first section of text covers the basics from purchasing and housing to the particulars such as handling, banding and nutrition.

The second section focuses on the different species, covering topics such as size, sexing, incubation and breeding. Because all of the birds described have been kept by the author, the information is especially relevant and helpful.

This thoroughly modern, easy-to-use guide is sure to become the definitive source for softbill keepers.

Ratings: 5 out of 5

Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds: Breeding, Hand-Feeding, Care, and Management by Ph.D., Matthew M. Vriends (Author)

Product Description

This book is for both amateur bird owners and professional breeders. It offers instructions on maintaining a bird nursery, keeping it heated and sanitary, and tending the chicks. Differing feed formulas are given for different species, including parrots, doves, finches, soft-billed birds, pheasants, and others. Advice pertains to correcting problems often suffered by baby birds, from dehydration and discolored feathers to viral, bacterial, and fungal infections.

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

The Complete Book of Finches and Softbills: Their Care and Breeding

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

Breeding Cage and Aviary Birds

Sexing all fowl, baby chicks, game birds, cage birds

This has long been considered the most helpful book ever published on determining the sex of adults and chicks of many species of fowl, game birds, and cage birds.

A worthwhile addition to the library of any beginning to expert breeder.

A Guide to Pigeons, Doves & Quail: Their Management, Care and Breeding

This title covers all species in this group available to the Australian aviculturist. Colour photography throughout is supported by precise, easy-to-read information on the care, management, health and breeding of these unique birds.

Pigeon and dove species include: Wompoo Pigeon, Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove, Purple-crowned Fruit-Dove, Torres Strait Pigeon, Topknot Pigeon, White-headed Pigeon, Wonga Pigeon, Green-winged Pigeon, Brown Pigeon, Common Bronzewing, Brush Bronzewing, Crested Pigeon, Flock Pigeon, Squatter Pigeon, Partridge Pigeon, Spinifex Pigeon, Rock Pigeon, Diamond Dove, Peaceful Dove, Bar-shouldered Dove, Barbary Dove, Spotted Turtledove, Senegal Dove, Ruddy Turtledove, Masked Dove, Talpacoti Dove, Bleeding Heart Pigeon, New Guinea Ground Dove, Nicobar Pigeon, Victoria Crowned Pigeon. Quail species include: Brown, King, Stubble, Japanese, Bobwhite, Californian, Little Button, Painted Button, Black-breasted Button, Red-chested Button, Red-backed Button.

Ratings: 3 out of 5

The Pigeon Guide: Practical Breeding Training and Management

Pigeon Fancying: Caring, Breeding, Racing and Exhibiting (Hardcover)

The World of Pigeons Starring: Jimmy Smits Michael Landon Director: Jim Jenner Format: DVD

A pair of Jim Jenner’s classic pigeon documentaries are combined on this DVD, plus you’ll find a host of additional Special Features on the making of these films, capturing aerial footage of birds in flight and a color photo gallery of pigeon breeds.

OLDEST FEATHERED FRIEND takes you on a fascinating journey through the world of pigeons. A wonderful blend of stories about a bird vital to human history. Combining vintage film footage with beautiful photography from around the world, the documentary takes you through key chapters in the history of pigeons and their relationship with humans. Visit the classic national shows where thousands of "fancy" birds compete. See the history of pigeon racing and some of its largest contests. Enjoy rare historic footage of birds as business and military messengers. With narration by Jimmy Smits, star of "N.Y.P.D. Blue."

MARATHON IN THE SKY is a thrilling look at one of the world's most exciting, least-known sports. Homing pigeons compete by the thousands in races on every continent, flying home at speeds of 50 mph from 100 to 600 miles. These birds, highly bred and expertly trained, are the world's greatest marathoners. See unique aerial footage of birds in competition. See intimate glimpses of the life cycle of pigeons. See footage from some of the world's premier lofts. Narrated by Michael Landon.

Both films have been digitally re-mastered. Also includes a teacher’s study guide. Over two and a half hours of viewing enjoyment!

Ratings: 5 out of 5

The Complete Guide to Raising Pet Birds for Profit: The Greatest Backyard Business Ever

A practical guide for the pet lover who wishes to make an income breeding, raising and selling small pet birds.

The book explains how to make an excellent income, either part-time or full-time breeding the most popular species of pet birds. Many breeders using these methods make from $500 to $2000 monthly on a part-time basis while full timers make much more.

It is a must have book if you enjoy breeding birds and would like to make a profit while doing something that you truly enjoy.

Ratings: 5 out of 5

You will learn how you can live anywhere and ship your birds to the nationwide market. The book is actually 6 books in one. It completely covers both cage and colony breeding methods of parakeets, cockatiels, lovebirds and finches, as well as marketing and shipping. Additionally, three chapters completely cover how to become a wholesale distributor of pet birds, which can be a very lucrative business.

Although the book was written with the pet lover in mind that wishes to make an income breeding birds, there is a tremendous amount of information in the book that the hobbyist will find useful as well. Many management tips and pointers can be used by the beginner as well as the experienced person to increase yearly production, thus increasing profits.

As a well known animal lover, author James McDonald sold approximately one million exotic birds before his retirement and he reminds the readers of the moral obligations and responsibilities of animal ownership and encourages the reader to always accept those responsibilities by providing humane and adequate care for their birds at all times.

Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds: Breeding, Hand-Feeding, Care, and Management by Ph.D., Matthew M. Vriends (Author)

Product Description

This book is for both amateur bird owners and professional breeders. It offers instructions on maintaining a bird nursery, keeping it heated and sanitary, and tending the chicks. Differing feed formulas are given for different species, including parrots, doves, finches, soft-billed birds, pheasants, and others. Advice pertains to correcting problems often suffered by baby birds, from dehydration and discolored feathers to viral, bacterial, and fungal infections.

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

Sexing all fowl, baby chicks, game birds, cage birds

This has long been considered the most helpful book ever published on determining the sex of adults and chicks of many species of fowl, game birds, and cage birds.

A worthwhile addition to the library of any beginning to expert breeder.

Breeding Cage and Aviary Birds

A Guide to Pigeons, Doves & Quail: Their Management, Care and Breeding

This title covers all species in this group available to the Australian aviculturist. Colour photography throughout is supported by precise, easy-to-read information on the care, management, health and breeding of these unique birds.

Pigeon and dove species include: Wompoo Pigeon, Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove, Purple-crowned Fruit-Dove, Torres Strait Pigeon, Topknot Pigeon, White-headed Pigeon, Wonga Pigeon, Green-winged Pigeon, Brown Pigeon, Common Bronzewing, Brush Bronzewing, Crested Pigeon, Flock Pigeon, Squatter Pigeon, Partridge Pigeon, Spinifex Pigeon, Rock Pigeon, Diamond Dove, Peaceful Dove, Bar-shouldered Dove, Barbary Dove, Spotted Turtledove, Senegal Dove, Ruddy Turtledove, Masked Dove, Talpacoti Dove, Bleeding Heart Pigeon, New Guinea Ground Dove, Nicobar Pigeon, Victoria Crowned Pigeon.

Quail species include: Brown, King, Stubble, Japanese, Bobwhite, Californian, Little Button, Painted Button, Black-breasted Button, Red-chested Button, Red-backed Button.

Ratings: 3 out of 5

The New Duck Handbook: Purchase, Care and Feeding, Health-Breeding Understanding Ducks Behavior (Pet Owner's Handbooks)

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5

Successful Duck and Goose Raising ~ Darrell Sheraw

Sexing all fowl, baby chicks, game birds, cage birds

This has long been considered the most helpful book ever published on determining the sex of adults and chicks of many species of fowl, game birds, and cage birds.

A worthwhile addition to the library of any beginning to expert breeder

Waterfowl: Care, Breeding and Conservation

A practical working handbook for both the beginner and the advanced aviculturist, Tarsnane draws on more than twenty years of experience to offer concise and informative data about all the water-fowl of the world. Describing modern management and breeding techniques, the book also surveys aspects of the natural history, ecology and conservation of several species.

This impressive treatise is filled with spectacular colour photographs, often of rarely seen waterfowl. If you are just interested in finding out more about the common City Park Mallard or need to know the specifics about the nesting requirements of a Burmese Spotbill -- this is for you.

Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds: Breeding, Hand-Feeding, Care, and Management by Ph.D., Matthew M. Vriends (Author)

Product Description

This book is for both amateur bird owners and professional breeders. It offers instructions on maintaining a bird nursery, keeping it heated and sanitary, and tending the chicks. Differing feed formulas are given for different species, including parrots, doves, finches, soft-billed birds, pheasants, and others. Advice pertains to correcting problems often suffered by baby birds, from dehydration and discolored feathers to viral, bacterial, and fungal infections.

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5

The Mating and Breeding of Poultry

First published in 1920, this informative book describes in detail all of the elements necessary to become a poultry breeder.

Poultrymen and -women alike will appreciate the details of how to pick and choose their chickens and how to run a larger-scale operation. Whether they are producing exhibition stock or birds with heavy egg-producing ability, readers will discover that poultry breeding provides both challenge and interest for the breeder. Breeding also serves as an outlet for artistic expression by allowing the breeder to mold shape and color combination to meet his or her ideal.

This informative guide covers an enormous range of topics, including: the principles of breeding, breeding for increased production, classes of poultry, and preparing fowl for show. Complete with numerous line illustrations, this book provides you with all the information and know-how you'll need to become an expert poultry breeder and caregiver.

Ratings: 3 out of 5

Genetics of the Fowl: The Classic Guide to Chicken Genetics and Poultry Breeding

Product Description

GENETICS OF THE FOWL has been the indispensible companion of chicken breeders since it was first published in 1949.

Chapters include the genetics of plumage, egg production, body size, disease resistance, and much more.

The readable style of the book is a refreshing change from modern tomes written for an audience of researchers.

Pheasant Breeding and Care

Sexing all fowl, baby chicks, game birds, cage birds

This has long been considered the most helpful book ever published on determining the sex of adults and chicks of many species of fowl, game birds, and cage birds.

A worthwhile addition to the library of any beginning to expert breeder.

Understanding Owls: Biology, Management, Breeding, Training [ILLUSTRATED]

Review: This book represents an entirely different way of looking at owls: from the standpoint of those who want to keep and breed them in captivity.

The author has written a number of other books on keeping and taming birds of prey. Her approach to studying owls is therefore a practical one. Beginning with two short chapters on owl taxonomy and biology, the author moves quickly to the meat of her work, the keeping of owls.

She makes the point that the first question potential owl keepers should ask is, Why do I want one? She then covers all of the working aspects of owl keeping: housing, equipment, feeding, breeding, and training. The British bias to the book is its only weakness, lessening the usefulness of the appendixes, not to mention the problem of the differences between wildlife laws in the U.K. and the U.S.

However, the author's no-nonsense approach to the keeping of owls is refreshing, and her advice has broad applicability to the keeping of birds in captivity. Nancy Bent

Product Description

A guide to caring for owls, covering topics such as: biology; taxonomy; housing; equipment; incubation; rearing; and training and flying owls.

Ratings: 4 out of 5