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Chick Days An Absolute Beginners Guide Raising Chickens From Hatchlings to Laying Hens by Jenna Woginrich
Publisher Comments Chickens 1-2-3 Essential information -- from keeping your new chicks warm to collecting still-warm eggs. Chickens are quirky and fun and their eggs give you tasty, nutritious food every day. Who could ask more of a pet? And it's surprisingly easy to be a backyard chicken-keeper. With lively text and charming photographs, Chick Days follows the day-by-day and week-by-week growth of three chickens as they develop from hatchlings to laying hens. Firsthand advice on chicken behavior, breed selection, feeding requirements, safe housing, hygiene, and health-care essentials ensures that your own flock will be as healthy and well-cared-for as this contented trio. A visual diary from day 1 to month 6. Your price $8.95 Used Trade Paperback
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Storeys Illustrated Guide To Poultry Breeds by Carol Ekarius
Publisher Comments More than 128 birds strut their stuff across the pages of Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds, the ultimate primer for farmers and fancies alike. Admire the handsome black and white plumage of Lakenvelder roosters, read the fascinating history of the Blue Hens of Delaware, and marvel at the petite size and toylike appearance of Call ducks. And if you're curious to know which heritage turkeys are making a comeback, look no further.
This definitive guide to North American barnyard and wild fowl includes a brief history of each breed, detailed descriptions of identifying characteristics, and colorful photography that celebrates the birds' quirky personalities and charming good looks. If it's fowl facts and photos you want, you'll find them all here. Your price $24.95 New Trade Paperback
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Raising Chickens for Dummies by Kimberly Willis
Publisher Comments Raising Chickens for Dummies Learn to: Raise chickens in virtually any backyard Choose and purchase chickens Construct the right housing Feed and care for your chickens Kimberly Willis Poultry breeder and enthusiast with Rob Ludlow Owner, BackYardChickens.com Your hands-on guide to modern chicken-raising methods Thinking about raising chickens? This comprehensive, practical guide gives you expert advice on all aspects of keeping chickens in your backyard. Whether you're interested in chickens as pets or as a source for eggs or meat, you'll find all the latest information on housing, feeding, healthcare, breeding, and much more. Do you speak chicken? learn about basic chicken biology, breeds, and behavior Select your chickens from eggs to chicks to adults, decide which to buy, how many you need, and find the healthy ones Take care of a small flock choose a type of housing, construct a chicken coop, feed your birds, and do housekeeping Make more chickens discover how to mate your chickens, incubate eggs, and hatch and nurture chicks Reap the harvest manage laying hens, collect and store eggs, butcher meat birds, and package and store meat Open the book and find: Basic chicken-keeping requirements Misconceptions about chickens explained Top tips for healthy chickens Do-it-yourself housing ideas The best feed for your birds Advice on controlling pests and predators Hints for optimal egg production Information on raising meat birds Answers to combat laying issues Your price $11.95 Used Trade Paperback
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Coop A Year of Poultry Pigs & Parenting by Michael Perry
Publisher Comments In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Truck: A Love Story gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.
Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhood — his city-bred parents took in more than a hundred foster children while running a ramshackle dairy farm — for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father.
And when his daughter Amy starts asking about God, Perry is called upon to answer questions for which he's not quite prepared. He muses on his upbringing in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect and weighs the long-lost faith of his childhood against the skeptical alternative (You cannot toss your seven-year-old a copy of Being and Nothingness).
Whether Perry is recalling his childhood ("I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered to the bumper of his Ford Falcon") or what it's like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig ("two firsts in one day"), Coop is filled with the humor his readers have come to expect. But Perry also writes from the quieter corners of his heart, chronicling experiences as joyful as the birth of his child and as devastating as the death of a dear friend.
Alternately hilarious, tender, and as real as pigs in mud, Coop is suffused with a contemporary desire to reconnect with the earth, with neighbors, with meaning...and with chickens. Your price $6.95 Used Hardcover
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Chickens by Derek Hall
Publisher Comments The chicken is one of the most familiar and ubiquitous of all the domestic animals, having been kept by humankind for thousands of years for its meat, eggs and feathers. It has also played—and continues to play—a part in religious ceremonies and other ancient rituals, aspects which are examined here. Today, chickens are found in almost every part of the world, and it is estimated that over 24 billion of them exist worldwide. Yet their exact origins are still open to conjecture, despite our long and mutual association, although they most likely stemmed from one of the breeds of Asian jungle fowl, to which many chickens bear a striking resemblance. This book serves as a general introduction to the many aspects of keeping domestic chickens, examining their likely origins and relationship with their closest relatives among the gamebirds, while sections on bird biology and behavior highlight the similarities and differences between chickens and other birds, providing insights into the reasons why they behave as they do. Advice is also given on choosing a chicken—and where to obtain one—and housing, feeding, health, and general care is considered. To finish, a comprehensive description of many of the world's most popular breeds is also provided, which will simplify the task of choosing chickens of your own. Flexible
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