The Concise Encyclopedia of Poultry Breeds: An Illustrated Directory of over 100 Chickens, Ducks, Geese and Turkeys, With 275 Photographs Paperback – December 7, 2015

This book is very helpful in its description of many breeds of chickens and other barnyard fowl. There is detailed information on each breed and many beautiful pictures to help identify your birds.

Love this book! Gives you clear pictures! Has standard breed size many more bantam breeds than I have seen in other books. The clear color photos were great, and are helping me truly decide among other research which chickens I will start with in my flock.

Fascinating book and a must-have for any chicken coop.

Pictures and descriptions are great but a number of breeds are missing. I did enjoy looking through it.

Perfect

very helpful to read on the chickens you are looking into getting. My daughter even enjoyed it because of how well the photos are with information.

I enjoy reading this! It does have pictures but it has doesn’t have that many breeds in it. However I’d does give some cool information about each chicken:duck/turkey breed and how it originated. Honesty could get this information free online.

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.