Raising Chickens For Dummies

Description

Your hands-on guide to modern chicken-raising methodsThinking about raising
chickens? You’ve come to the right place! This new edition of Raising Chickens
For Dummies provides the most up-to-date, thorough information on the many
aspects of keeping chickens in your backyard. Inside, you’ll find hands-on,
easy-to-follow instructions on choosing and purchasing chickens, constructing
housing for your birds, feeding your chickens for optimal health, combating
laying issues, controlling pests and predators, optimizing egg production, and
much more.Raising chickens on a small scale is a popular―and growing―pastime.
If you’re interested in keeping chickens as pets or as a source for eggs,
Raising Chickens For Dummies gives you plain-English explanations of
everything you need to know to about caring for chickens. Inside, you’ll learn
about basic chicken biology, breeds, and behavior, which chicken breed is best
for you, how many you need, ways to spot healthy chickens, how to build a
chicken coop, best practices for mating your chickens, how to incubate eggs,
how to hatch and nurture chicks, manage laying hens, collect and store eggs,
and butcher meat birds.Offers practical advice on choosing and purchasing
chickensHelps you construct the right housing for your chickensProvides tips
on feeding and caring for your chickensIncludes top tips for raising healthy
chickensWhether you’re a first-time poulterer or you’ve been raising chickens
for years, this comprehensive guideprovides practical how-to advice for
keeping chickens in virtually any backyard. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ For Dummies; 2nd edition (March 2, 2015)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1118982789
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 85
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.47 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #655,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #570 in Animal Husbandry (Books) #9,872 in Engineering (Books)
• #570 in Animal Husbandry (Books)
• #9,872 in Engineering (Books)