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Chickens in your backyard : a beginner's guide / Gail Damerow and Rick Luttmann.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale Press, 2018Copyright date: ©1976Edition: Revised editionDescription: xiii, 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781635650969
  • 1635650968
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 636.5 D157 Available 33111009198165
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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.

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