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Doing Bird Martin Gurdon

Doing Bird By Martin Gurdon

Doing Bird by Martin Gurdon


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Summary

Doing Bird tells you what it's really like to keep chickens, charting the highs and lows in the year of an amateur hen keeper and his flock.

Doing Bird Summary

Doing Bird by Martin Gurdon

Thousands of people are keeping chickens as pets for the first time. There are plenty of books that will show you how. Doing Bird tells you what it's like, charting the highs and lows in the year of an amateur hen keeper and his flock.

Split into months and seasons, Doing Bird is an extension of Gurdon's highly successful Sunday Telegraph 'Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance' column, and brings out the characters and idiosyncrasies of the birds themselves.

Highlights include Bombay the Indian runner duck's unrequited and very non-platonic love for Bella the chicken. Sven the rheumatic, pensioner cockerel's last stand against a marauding fox, and his son Svenson's sometimes awkward transition from teenaged pretender to putative Alpha male with a dodgy aim. We see the power play between flock old stagers Peeping Chicken, Anne Summers, Brahms, Meringue, Bella and Nude to new arrivals Squawks 1 and 2 and the pair of birds initially known as 'the other two,' until one of them tries savaging the author's hand and is re-christened Slasher -leaving her colleague with the sobriquet of 'Too'.

About Martin Gurdon

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.

Additional information

GOR004898979
9781780331935
1780331932
Doing Bird by Martin Gurdon
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
2013-03-19
272
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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