What You Want to Know About Budgerigars by Eric L. Johns

What You Want to Know About Budgerigars

by Eric L. Johns

Robert Hale & Company, 1975 [Second Edition], ISBN 0709148968, black and white photographic plates, black and white illustrations, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, sticker residue on front end-paper, no inscriptions; Dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners (see photographs)

In this book he gives in concise yet simple terms, the necessary details of the welfare, breeding, exhibiting, history and simple genetics of budgies.  Other highlights include instructions on teaching your bird to talk, a complete list of budgerigar ailments, symptoms and treatments and a chapter on questions that the author has been asked over and over again.
The book is illustrated with excellently reproduced photographs which cover a full range of subjects, all closely connected with the Fancy.  Some of these are unique in budgerigar literature and should assist not only those who want to commence a stud for exhibiting, but also those who only require advice on keeping a single pet."