Guides for Keeping and Raising Chickens

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Over the years, I’ve found some excellent books to help both beginners and experienced chicken keepers.

The Backyard Chicken Bible:
The Complete Guide to Raising Chickens
by Eric Lofgren

Your Backyard is the New Farm!
Whether you want two chickens or two hundred, this manual will guide you along your journey to successfully raising chickens. Growing a backyard chicken flock is an investment, and one of the most important factors in cultivating a happy, healthy poultry society is taking the time to learn everything you can about your birds.

The Backyard Chicken Bible is filled with real-life solutions and expert advice on what to do in almost any scenario you may find yourself in while raising chickens. No matter if you're starting with eggs, chicks or adult birds, you'll find the guidance you need to succeed.

Inside you'll find:

• step-by-step processes for preparing your yard for chickens, caring for chicks when they arrive, maintaining the health and behavior of your flock, and addressing common issues
  illustrated explanations of the anatomy of a chicken
  detailed treatment advice for poultry diseases and ailments
  ideas for building coops and nest boxes
  step-by-step instructions for bathing, grooming, clipping wings, and trimming toe nails and beaks
  advice for common flock problems including hens that stop laying, aggressive roosters, and changing flock dynamics

Take the guesswork out of raising chickens, and start preparing yourself now to be the best chicken farmer in your neighborhood!

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Raising Chickens for Dummies
by Kimberley Willis and Robert T. Ludlow (owner of BackyardChickens.com)

Your hands-on guide to modern chicken-raising methods

Thinking about raising chickens? You've come to the right place! 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 chickens
Helps you construct the right housing for your chickens
Provides tips on feeding and caring for your chickens
Includes top tips for raising healthy chickens

Whether you're a first-time poulterer or you've been raising chickens for years, this comprehensive guide provides practical how-to advice for keeping chickens in virtually any backyard.

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Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens
by Gail Damerow (Author)

Here is all the information you need to successfully raise chickens from choosing breeds and hatching chicks to building coops, keeping the birds healthy, and protecting them from predators. This revised third edition contains a new chapter on training chickens and understanding their intelligence, expanded coverage of hobby farming, and up-to-date information on chicken health issues, including avian influenza and fowl first aid.

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The Chicken Health Handbook, A Complete Guide to Maximizing Flock Health and Dealing with Disease
by Gail Damerow (Author)

This one-of-a-kind reference book covers the health problems that plague chickens of all breeds and ages. Practical charts identify common symptoms and causes of infection, while an alphabetic listing of diseases provides advice on treatment. You’ll find helpful descriptions of troublesome ailments of all types, from poor egg production to crooked toe syndrome. Practical remedies and gentle preventative care measures will help your beloved flock stay happy, healthy, and safe.

This essential guide to keeping your chickens healthy and productive includes the latest information on:

Practicing preventive healthcare
Using natural approaches to enhance the immune system
Treating and avoiding news-making diseases
Raising healthy chickens in an urban environment

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