Chickens in your backyard : a beginner's guide / Gail Damerow and Rick Luttmann.
Material type: TextPublisher: Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale Press, 2018Copyright date: ©1976Edition: Revised editionDescription: xiii, 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781635650969
- 1635650968
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 636.5 D157 | Available | 33111009198165 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In cities and suburbsand everywhere in between, a classic American tradition is back in a big way-raising backyard chickens for eggs, meat, fun, or profit. Chickens in Your Backyard has been the go-to guide for chicken care for over 40 years.
This revised and updatededition combines all the classic techniques with the most up-to-date information-from incubating, raising, housing, and feeding, to treating disease and raising chickens for show. Chickens in Your Backyard provides everything you need to know to turn your backyard into a happy homestead.
Newly revised and updated
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150) and index.
Introduction: before the beginning -- Words you should know -- Protecting your chickens -- Protecting your garden --Housing your chickens -- Feeding your chickens -- Roosters to crow about -- Eggs from your hens -- The setting hen -- Mechanical incubating -- Caring for your chicks -- Finger-lickin' backyard chicken -- Showing your chickens -- Tips and tricks for happy, healthy chickens -- Staring your flock -- Chickens for fun.
All the basics (and beyond!) for raising happy, healthy chickens. In cities, suburbs, and everywhere in between, a classic American tradition is back in a big way--raising backyard chickens for eggs, meat, fun, or profit. Chickens in Your Backyard has been the go-to guide for chicken care for more than 40 years. This revised and updated edition combines all the classic techniques with the most up-to-date information--from incubating, raising, housing, and feeding, to treating disease and raising chickens for show. Chickens in Your Backyard provides everything you need to know to turn your backyard into a happy homestead..-- Publisher description.