A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens

A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens
Author: Melissa Caughey
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1612124194

Chickens make wonderful pets, and Melissa Caughey provides all the information kids need to raise healthy chickens and have lots of fun doing it. Covering everything from feeding, housing, and collecting eggs to quirky behaviors and humane treatment, Caughey’s engaging advice helps children understand the best ways to care for their chickens. Spark enthusiasm with creative activities like chicken forts and a veggie piñata for the flock, and feed more than the imagination with egg-centric dishes like Mexican egg pizza.

The Backyard Chicken Fight

The Backyard Chicken Fight
Author: Gretchen Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Chickens
ISBN: 9780972822558

Journalist and chicken-owner Gretchen Anderson chronicles the stories of people who are fighting City Hall for the right to own chickens. Find out how hen-keeping is ruffling feathers across the country. Also, learn the secrets to raising a healthy flock in your own backyard.

Keeping Chickens

Keeping Chickens
Author: Jeremy Hobson
Publisher: David & Charles
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2007-04-05
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 9780715325674

Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of chickens and includes ideas for crafts and recipes using chickens' eggs.

Keeping Chickens For Dummies

Keeping Chickens For Dummies
Author: Pammy Riggs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2011-08-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119994187

Practical how-to advice for keeping chickens "For me, raising chickens, for eggs and meat, has been one of the most enjoyable aspects of our family farm. I am a great admirer of "chicken whisperer" Pammy Riggs, and with her two co-authors she has produced an admirably thorough guide to enjoying the pleasures and avoiding the pitfalls of keeping chickens. Get the book, and take the feathery plunge!" - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Keeping Chickens For Dummies provides you with an introduction to all aspects of keeping chickens, from constructing a hutch to the correct feeding regime. It offers expert advice straight from the River Cottage ‘Chicken Whisperer', so whether you're looking to raise chickens for eggs, meat, or just the entertainment value and fun - Keeping Chickens For Dummies is the perfect place to start. Keeping Chickens For Dummies: Shows you how to keep chickens in different conditions Offers guidance on choosing and purchasing chickens Gives great step-by-step advice on constructing the right housing Provides expert advice on how to feed and care for your chickens

A Family Guide To Keeping Chickens

A Family Guide To Keeping Chickens
Author: Anne Perdeaux
Publisher: How To Books
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-01-16
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1845285549

For the family and would-be smallholder, chickens are the obvious first step when venturing into keeping livestock. Chickens also make ideal family pets, requiring less attention than a dog yet still being entertaining, productive and educational. This practical book is ideal for the complete beginner. Even someone who has never kept animals before should be able to follow the clear, detailed guidance that is given at every stage. It includes: · Choosing the right chickens and housing for your garden size · Exploring useful equipment, such as poultry feeders and drinkers · Routine care for your chickens, including what to feed them on · Outfoxing the fox - and other predators · What to do with all those eggs! · Dealing with parasites and ailments · Broody hens and hatching eggs With true-life portraits of chicken keepers, little known facts, and helpful and informative personal anecdotes, A Family Guide To Keeping Chickens, 2nd Edition is an easy and enjoyable read for anyone interested in keeping chickens.

The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens, Revised

The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens, Revised
Author: Andy Schneider
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1631594435

Looking to get started keeping backyard poultry? Let the down-to-earth, common-sense advice in The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens, Expanded & Revised be your guide. Since The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens was first published in 2011, tens of thousands of people have discovered the joys and benefits of a backyard flock. Now Andy Schneider is back with The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens, Expanded & Revised. Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources—and you can do it, even with limited space in your backyard. Let the Chicken Whisperer (poultry personality Andy Schneider) teach you everything he knows and everything you need to know about raising a backyard flock! Ditch the super-technical manuals and enjoy Andy’s unique, common-sense perspective in The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens, Expanded & Revised. This fun, comprehensive guide is a perfect fit for your busy lifestyle. Inside, you’ll learn: The benefits of a backyard chicken flock The art of incubation Living with brooding hens Setting up coops and runs Proper poultry nutrition Understanding your chickens’ health and wellness And that’s just for a start, so why not start your flock today?

Keeping Chickens 9th Edition: Practical Advice for Beginners

Keeping Chickens 9th Edition: Practical Advice for Beginners
Author: Beate Peitz
Publisher: 5m Books Ltd
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1789180260

Providing a practical and easy to follow guide, this is an ideal book for people beginning with keeping chickens, covering the basics of poultry husbandry. The authors are experienced smallholders and share their advice with the aim of keeping healthy, happy chickens. The physical and behavioural attributes of domestic chickens are discussed in detail, advice on laying hens, breeding and raising chicks, housing, feeding, nutrition and health maintenance are covered, along with egg production, slaughter, collecting eggs and poultry meat products, and egg based recipes. Keeping Chickens is highly illustrated and adapted from the bestselling German book in its 9th edition. 5m Books

Keeping Chickens and other Poultry

Keeping Chickens and other Poultry
Author: Vivian Head
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-02-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1848584946

More and more people are enjoying the benefits of keeping poultry, and chickens are perhaps the most rewarding of all. This book provides a practical guide to chicken husbandry, from hatching your first chicks to cooking with produce that you know has come from happy, free-range birds. There are clear step-by-step instructions on how to make...

The Joy of Keeping Chickens

The Joy of Keeping Chickens
Author: Jennifer Megyesi
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-02-25
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1602393133

Farmer and animal expert Megyesi discusses all the basic details of raising chickens--biology, health, food, and choosing breeds--and identifies what terms like organic and free-range really mean for poultry farmers and consumers. 100 color photographs.