Keeping Pet Chickens: Bring Your Garden to Life and Enjoy the Bounty of Fresh Eggs from Your Own Small Flock of Happy Hens: 4 (Keeping Pets) - Hardcover

The last few years have witnessed an amazing boom in the popularity of chickens as pets. People in their thousands have woken up to the fact that you don t need farmland or lots of special equipment to keep them; today s exciting new generation of chicken houses mean that anyone with a bit of space - a garden, terrace, or simple backyard can keep chickens. And the added bonus is that they make great pets. Low-maintenance and easy-going, provided they are regularly fed and watered chickens virtually look after themselves. No need to take them for a walk, and they come with a lifetime s supply of free eggs. When this brilliant illustrated guide to chicken keeping was first published, it quickly established itself as a best seller.

Johannes Paul was born in Sussex in in 1978 and grew up on a small farm with many animals including pigs, goats, horses and chickens. After studying Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University, he gained a Masters in Product Design from the Royal College of Art in London. Together with three friends he founded Omlet in order to encourage more people to keep chickens. Omlet produces the Eglu a modern chicken house suitable for a small garden that makes keep9ing chickens easy and fun. William Windham was born in Norwich in 1978and lived in the deepest Norfolk countryside for the next 20 years. He studied Engineering at Cambridge University and Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art. Since graduating he has concentrated on the Omlet company supplying people with chicken houses and a little of the good life. Chickens are central to his day s work- just walking into the studio in the morning involves tripping over at least ten chickens!