With regards to other livestock, I can name a lot of people that are 'book smart' on them but put them out in a real situation, and they'd be floundering. Books don't teach you EVERYTHING, getting out and getting experience from others that KNOW and have been around it, goes a lot farther. Sure books are handy to fall back on if a certain problem or such arises, but they are by far not 'it all'.
On a side note on the complaining about people asking, I find on groups, that if you ask more heads are better than one. You may get conflicting advice, but it's a deal of you get several different ideas, take what you can use, and ignore the rest, easy as that. Of course when on a group with a few that try to talk down to newbies and such, and make them feel low, you are going to succeed in running them off and loose possibly valuable members. But that falls in the moderators deal, of who and just how much they allow to be put out there on a group..........................................
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Teresa,
Teresa,
"wildliferescue29" <wildliferescue29@...> wrote:
Not to sound disagreeable but with some of the inquiries on this site, I wonder if anyone bothers to read books on poultry keeping.
I know that I, as well as others, have suggested books on poultry and I'm a bit stumped at why more folks don't have manuals to learn about poultry husbandry.
Online discussions can be useful and have their place however, more often than not, what you're going to get is a great big bowl of conflicting information and end up more confused than you were to start out with. At least if you know the basics, you can pick and choose what you read online as useful information.
Before acquiring livestock of any kind, it would seem prudent to have a manual on the basics of husbandry before embarking.
Just sayin'.
Sue
WLR
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