Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow

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Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow

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Once you decide to raise chickens, you'll need all the information and advice you can get. And lucky for you, this book is as far as you'll have to look.

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens contains everything you need to know, from starting your own backyard flock to putting eggs on the table.

With easy-to-understand illustrations and text, this book shows you all about:

Choosing the right breed
Caring for chicks
Feeding the growing flock
Building feeders and shelters
Collecting and storing eggs
Preventing health problems
Raising broilers for meat
Showing your chickens

About the author

Gail Damerow and her husband operate a family farm in Tennessee where they keep poultry and dairy goats, tend a sizable garden, and maintain a small orchard. They grow and preserve much of their own food, make their own yogurt and ice cream from fresh goat milk, and bake their own bread. Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural skills.

Book details

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Storey Publishing LLC
Publication date: January 2010
ISBN-10: 1603424695
ISBN-13: 9781603424691

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