Doing Bird
Published on 4. April 2013
272 pages
978-1-78033-398-4 (ISBN)
Description
Meet the Flockers -a soap opera of love, life and eggs
After fourteen years of garden chicken keeping Martin Gurdon thought adding some ducks and doves to his flock would be harmless fun. He didn't realise what he was letting himself in for.
Garden chicken and bird keeping has never been more popular, there are plenty of practical books that show you how, but this one reveals the often-bizarre, sometimes moving but always hilarious reality.
Charting the seasonal highs and lows in a year of an amateur domestic bird owner and his flock, Doing Bird introduces you to world filled with ducks who think they're chickens, a hen called Ann Summers, invading foxes, rabbits and builders, vast vet bills, doves needing parenting classes and Bombay, the drake with an unrequited love for Bella the chicken.
This is a fowl story of a man, a woman and a load of feathery trouble.
After fourteen years of garden chicken keeping Martin Gurdon thought adding some ducks and doves to his flock would be harmless fun. He didn't realise what he was letting himself in for.
Garden chicken and bird keeping has never been more popular, there are plenty of practical books that show you how, but this one reveals the often-bizarre, sometimes moving but always hilarious reality.
Charting the seasonal highs and lows in a year of an amateur domestic bird owner and his flock, Doing Bird introduces you to world filled with ducks who think they're chickens, a hen called Ann Summers, invading foxes, rabbits and builders, vast vet bills, doves needing parenting classes and Bombay, the drake with an unrequited love for Bella the chicken.
This is a fowl story of a man, a woman and a load of feathery trouble.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78033-398-4 (9781780333984)
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Martin Gurdon is a freelance journalist, columnist and author, specialising in motoring, but writing about a whole raft of other subjects. He is a contributor to the Sunday Telegraph, London Evening Standard, What Diesel and Classic Cars magazine, where he is a columnist. Martin is the author of Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance, his first book, and the follow up, Travels with My Chicken.
