This friendly, chatty book gives you all the everyday information you need to keep your hens happy and safe. It covers all the questions you might have: How many hens to keep? What to feed them? What about a cockerel? Will they get on with the dog or destroy the vegetable patch? Jane Furnival shares her decade of experience with a back garden flock, which over the years included battery rescue hens and cockerels. As you'd expect from the Queen of Thrift, Jane's top tips include no-nonsense money-saving ideas and practical suggestions. This chatty guide also includes instructions on how to build a hen house by Jane's husband Andy. Jane's hilarious and heartwarming stories of life with Winchester the cockerel and his hen-pecked retinue will entertain animal lovers and inspire anyone who is thinking about keeping chickens. Jane Furnival was the author of cult bestseller , and became TV's Queen of Thrift as presenter of the BBC1 series , and a regular on .