The Concise Encyclopedia of Poultry Breeds: An Illustrated Directory of Over 100 Chickens, Duc

Brilliant pictures and descriptions.

As a new backyard/pet chicken (and one gosling) keeper, I've found plenty of info to help me make my breed choice for baby chicks. Lots of excellent pictures. As another reviewer said it doesn't have a whole lot of info on ducks, turkey and goose breeds but enough to be helpful to me. I was a bit hesitant to order it in the paperback format but happily it's large, measuring 11" x 8 1/2 wide with high quality paper.It's a pure breed book so doesn't have anything on "mutt" breeds like the popular Easter Egger which lays blue and/or green eggs but like any mutt, it's probably impossible to be specific about most traits. I wondered what would be the best book for me as a beginner and this is it! I think more experienced chicken custodians would enjoy it too.

Nice informative book, good pictures

Liked it but it is not the complete list I expected.

I found this book to contain too few different breeds, so a bit disappointed in that order.