The Complete Handbook of Poultry – March 17, 2025

Your Authoritative Reference for Poultry

This book is an authoritative reference on poultry for the practitioner. It responds to the need for a multidisciplinary text and will appeal to all fields aligned with the rearing, breeding, feeding, and keeping of poultry. Every entry in this Handbook covers the topic in depth, and the text is accompanied by up-to-date photographs and historical images to show the development of poultry breeds.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Coverage: It includes entries on a full range of breeds, including chickens, ducks, guinea fowl, quail, turkey, and pigeons, with entries for relevant farming, medical, descriptive, and industry terms.
• Modern Poultry Farming: It covers aspects of poultry farming that have developed dramatically in recent years, including production methods, maintenance practices, and poultry stocks.
• Industry Insights: It provides information on the aims of the commercial poultry industry, exhibition poultry fanciers, and garden poultry keepers. It also covers genetics and diversity in global poultry production and sustainable poultry production.
• Expert Authorship: Written by two highly qualified authors with significant experience in the field of poultry.
• Broad Audience: It is an essential reference text for a wide range of audiences, including smallholders, feed producers, farmers, agriculturists, veterinarians, and industrial scientists. The text is also highly applicable for courses on animal science, husbandry, food science, and agriculture.