The chicken whisperer's guide to keeping chickens everything you need to know-- and didn't know you needed to know about backyard and urban chickens
Are you looking for a great way to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources? Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to start making this happen, even with limited space in your backyard.
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Beverly, Mass. :
Quarry Books,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Power to the poultry: the growing urban chicken movement
- Henology : know thy hen for she is great
- Backyard outlaws : are chickens allowed where you live? what should you do if they aren't?
- Prep work : getting your home and yard ready
- Incubation : so you're egg-specting?
- The art of brooding : preparing the nursery for your new arrivals
- Home sweet home : coops and runs
- Safe and sound : protecting your flock from predators
- Nutrition : common management questions and suggestions
- Illness and ailments : prevention and treatment
- Appendix : egg artistry : what to do with all those eggs (besides eat them).
