Chickens come home to roost on tablet computers

April 13, 2012 - PRLog -- UK author publishes urban chicken-keeping guide for tablet computers

Chickens As Pets by Skipton-based author Andrew Hinkinson-Hodnett is a new ebook available for Kindle, iPad, Kobo and all other e-reader devices. The Kindle edition is available to buy and download from Amazon. A version readable on all other e-reader devices can be purchased from smashwords.com.

A special interactive iBooks edition for the iPad will soon be available to buy from the Apple iBookstore and is one of the first-ever ebooks to be produced in Apple’s new iBooks format by an independent UK author. This new ebook format enables authors to include interactive quizzes, diagrams, videos and sounds such as those found in the interactive iBooks edition of Chickens As Pets.

The chickens really are up to something this time, Mrs Tweedy. Between 250,000 and half a million households in the UK keep hens in their gardens and backyards as pets. And the numbers are going up.

Chickens As Pets is the ideal introduction to keeping chickens as pets in towns and cities. It's written in a friendly, conversational style that never patronises the reader and aims to encourage and support.

Everything the prospective urban chicken-keeper needs to know is covered, from buying your first hens through to information on how to deal with parasites, hatching chicks, coop cleaning, guarding against predators, disease prevention and more. The author shares some of his own experiences to help illustrate and advise.

“Chickens As Pets came about because I thought a book that accepted, endorsed and celebrated keeping chickens as pets was long overdue,” says Andrew. “Keeping chickens at home was commonplace until the end of the Second World War, when interest declined until the 21st Century brought with it new concerns about where food comes from and how it is produced. Today keeping chickens as pets is more popular than ever but some people still see it as a traditional farming activity. The book aims to change that perception, to show that chickens actually make a lot of sense as productive, friendly pets.

Chickens As Pets is for people who keep these birds as much-loved family pets and not as commercial livestock. What they’re doing makes sense in these times of rising food prices and environmental concerns – arguably a lot more sense than dogs and cats.”

Chickens As Pets has been number 1 in the Kindle bird book charts a number of times already since publication.

CONTACT INFORMATION: Photos and copies of the book can happily be provided upon request. Andrew is available for interviews in person or by phone (07590 502810). He can also be reached via http://facebook.com/chickensaspets, andrew@chickensaspets.uk.com and the Chickens As Pets website, http://chickensaspets.uk.com. The book is also promoted through engagement with chicken fans via Twitter (http://twitter.com/chickensaspets) and a Google+ page.

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Andrew Hinkinson-Hodnett is a UK author whose first book, Chickens As Pets, is available for all e-reading devices via Amazon, Smashwords and Apple.