[.ca] Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds: Breeding, ... (ISBN 0812095812)

A good book, but..:
It's a good book and easy to read, but it's more focussed on professional breeding than it is for people who just bought a bird and want more information about raising and hand-feeding. Even though it's good reading material.

hand-feeding and raising babybirds:
I have found this book to be very informative. novists as well as experienced persons can find answers to any questions. i found this book easy to read.

Where was the editor on this book?:
If you have patience, you can get a good "overview" of handfeeding pet baby birds here.. If not.. I suggest you go elsewhere. Dr.Vriends thoughts are disorganized, self-congratulatory, and all over the place. He could of used an intelligent editor here. Each chapter has information that is right out of the authors head-- instead of organizing laying of eggs, incubating, feeding, etc. in concise chapters. The chapters repeat lots of information. I found it very hard to follow-- trying to turn forward and back to other chapters with "sort of" the same topic. I respect Dr. Vriends expertise on most everything...but, the points on this book are not organized. What if you don't want to feed the baby birds when they first hatch? What if you want to socialize them while still letting the mom and dad feed? There are lots of places here where I left scratching my head-- and re-reading the convoluted syntax in this book asking "what is he trying to say here"? This book definately is written from the standpoint of out of the incubator, into the breeders hands... Dr. Vriends, you have more experience on this to share, don't you? Too professional a book...

A great how to on hand-feeding.:
This book takes the novice from the very beginning. It covers every aspect of handfeeding. Concise, easy to read, with great colour pictures. I would recommend this book to the beginning handfeeder as well as those who are experienced.