If  you have looked around at the cost of buying a chicken coop or ark and thought it would be cheaper to build your own, this is the book for you. It contains detailed plans for a hen coop that will house 6-8 hens, complete with perches, nest boxes, pop holes, door and run and will enable you to construct your own coop for a fraction of the cost. The whole coop could be completed in one weekend. You can also simplify the plan to create a plan for a duck or goose house.

Each. This guide to using small incubators in the home or classroom looks at the various types of incubators, the necessary preparation and the actual incubation. It covers the sexing and rearing of the chicks, and possible problems, as well as tips for teachers and useful addresses.

Designed for the small-scale poultry keeper and the commercial breeder this jargon-free guide to natural and artificial incubation deals with the process of egg development and the conditions necessary for successful incubation, hatching and rearing. It covers a wide range of bird species, including chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pheasants, quail and ostriches. It also includes details of incubators, storage of eggs, sexing and raising young birds, common problems, and a list of equipment suppliers.

This book covers all the varieties of Coturnix quail, with useful advice on housing, managing and breeding and is illustrated throughout.

Each. A guide to rearing pheasants including over wintering, incubation, catching, rearing and releasing, and chapters on diseases, construction of pens and costs. Fully illustrated with colour photographs and diagrams throughout.

Each. This practical guide to the control of vermin defines which animals may be legally controlled, and shows methods of trapping or killing them. It also covers prevention, and the law relating to vermin control. There is a list of suppliers and useful addresses.

A book for those starting to keep poultry organically.  It covers chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowl, telling you exactly what you need to know in each case - housing, feeding, problems, etc.  The book also includes the latest research findings about keeping free-range and organic poultry. If you're confused about what 'organic' means, and about the varying organic standards, this is the book for you. It's clearly written easy to read, like all Katie Thear's books, and is well illustrated.

Each. This is an excellent book all about coturnix quail, the history and management for hobby and profit. This book will tell you everything you need to know about keeping, breeding and housing coturnix (Japanese) quail. This book has some excellent colour photographs of the following colour mutations of coturnix (japanese) quail:- melanistic tuxedo, dual purpose and meat quail, golden tuxedo, tri-colour tuxedo, British white, Italian laying, light pharaoh, pharaoh female, golden, British range, dark British range, red tuxedo, black backed white, melanistic, fawn backed white etc. There are also many other photographs of quail equipment, incubators, eggs ready for setting, quail in breeding cages, quail coops and runs and housing, commercial breeders etc.

Each. Written by an experienced bantam and large fowl poultry breeder and show judge this excellent book covers soft and hard feather bantams, true bantams and rare breed bantams. This book is an ideal introduction to a keeping bantams.

A basic guide to keeping chickens humanely on a small scale.

As long as the proper conditions are provided for them, they can be kept on any scale. Conditions include  shelter, food, good management and access to clean water. This book covers all aspects of keeping, breeding and rearing ducks, for show, pleasure or commercial purposes.

Each. An introduction to keeping geese on a domestic and commercial scale. Management of different kinds of geese, including domestic, commercial and ornamental breeds, for the smallholder, farmer and breeder. Coverage includes breeds and breed development, housing, feeding, pasture management, penning and fencing, access to water, breeding and rearing, raising for the Christmas market, marketing, health and showing.