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Chickens is a great introductory guide to raising a healthy flock of happy chickens. From hens to roosters, from layers to broilers, Weaver covers the essentials in a straight forward style. You won’t need to worry about your chickens flying the coop with this resource in hand. –John Ivanko, co-author of Rural Renaissance: Renewing the Quest for the Good Life

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Chickens are the perfect hobby farm animal, and Sue Weaver’s book Chickens is the pe (more…)

Practical how-to advice for raising chickens in virtually any backyard! Raising chickens on a small scale is a popular–and growing–pastime. And Raising Chickens For Dummies provides an up-to-date, thorough introduction to all aspects of caring for chickens, including choosing and purchasing chickens, constructing housing, and proper feeding. Raising Chickens For Dummies provides authoritative, detailed information to make raising chickens for eggs, meat, or backyard e (more…)

From Booklist

From Oakland, California, to Madison, Wisconsin, to Brooklyn, New York, the backyard buzz is all about urban chicken keeping, and mainstream publications, such as the New York Times and the New Yorker, have chronicled the trend’s growth, especially among members of the local food movement. Foreman, who has authored several urban agriculture and chicken-themed titles, offers a full compendium of everything a novice city chicken farmer needs to start and maintain a (more…)

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“Reading this book is like walking down a quiet corridor of a museum, peeping into this room and that. All manner of curiosities await discovery. Home to Roost is a compulsively readable history of man’s relationship with Gallus domesticus, rich with anecdote, fable, and fact. Sheasley can write, and his lyrical, often droll prose winds around and through the happy maze of fact and fiction he’s constructed. Even as he tackles sobering topics like avian flu and the pat (more…)

The British have taken chickens arks as they call them, to an art form. But with the US dollar weak against the Euro, who can afford to pay $1,000.00 or more for a place to keep their chickens? The Catawba Brougham ConvertiCoop chicken coop can be built for significantly less money, and still maintain the look of a piece of fine cabinetry built with relatively few woodworking tools. You don’t have to own a “New Yankee Workshop” to build a Catawba Brougham ConvertiCoop that will (more…)

Practical how-to advice for raising chickens in virtually any backyard! Raising chickens on a small scale is a popular–and growing–pastime. And Raising Chickens For Dummies provides an up-to-date, thorough introduction to all aspects of caring for chickens, including choosing and purchasing chickens, constructing housing, and proper feeding. Raising Chickens For Dummies provides authoritative, detailed information to make raising chickens for eggs, meat, or backyard ente (more…)

From Library Journal
These two new books are targeted at anyone with a couple of acres (and even city dwellers where ordinances permit) who would like to raise a few farm animals for meat, milk, eggs, or simply enjoyment. Both volumes are intended for beginners and are written by nonexperts who nonetheless can offer a great deal of practical information and advice based on their own experiences. Peck-Whiting and her family have dabbled in raising chickens, ducks, rabbits, goa (more…)

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Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you’ve ever tasted. The answer is chickens–endearing birds that require but a modest outlay of time, space and food.As they learned to raise chickens, Gail and Rick Luttmann came to realize the need for a comprehensive but clear and nontechnical guide. Their book covers all the basics in a light and entertaining sytle, from housing and feeding through incubating, bringing up chicks, butchering, and raising chickens for sho (more…)

Review“Everything you need to know about chickens, all in one easy-to-understand volume: Breed selcetion, health issues, care and maintenace, incubating, hatching, feed and shelter, egg and meat prodution, and more.  Many photos and illustrations, tables and index.” – Back Home 

Expert advice on selecting breeds, caring for chicks, producing eggs, raising broilers, feeding, troubleshooting, and much more.

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From School Library Journal
Grade 5 Up-Two definitive guides, written with inexperienced youth in mind. However, the information is so complete that even an expert farmer might find these titles useful as a refresher course. Each book covers breeds, housing, economics, and maintenance and management. All scientific terms are defined in the glossary in addition to the text. The pages are divided into areas of text and definitions or other boxed information. Illustrations consist of b (more…)