On Keeping Chickens [eBook Pack]

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Choosing and Keeping Chickens by Chris Graham

Do you raise chickens as part of the family or as a livelihood? Are you looking for helpful information to provide the best care for your chickens? Or are you just curious to learn more about this popular animal?

Choosing and Keeping Chickens provides detailed information about the most prevalent types of chickens. Learn all about their appearance, key traits, general temperament, health concerns, and estimated life span. This book also describes characteristics of the eggs laid by each type of chicken as well as birds that best mix with each breed, so you can make better choices in setting up your coops. Seasonal guides detail the changing needs of chickens over the course of a year and reveal what every chicken keeper should look for as well as how to best arrange chicken housing during various climates.

Whether you seek help with your chicken keeping, or just want to know more about chickens, Choosing and Keeping Chickens can help you become more knowledgeable about this fascinating bird.

# Paperback: 208 pages
# Publisher: TFH Publications, Inc. (November 28, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0793806011
# ISBN-13: 978-0793806010

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Storeys Guide to Raising Chickens: 3rd Edition by Gail Damerow

Storeys Guide to Raising Chickens includes all the information farmers need from choosing breeds and hatching chicks to building coops and keeping the birds healthy and safe from predators to keep chickens or run an egg business.

The 3rd edition, now with 188,000 copies in print contains new and expanded features:
Fowl Disposition new chapter on training chickens and understanding their intelligence
Expanded coverage of hobby farming
Disease section now includes information on avian influenza and fowl first aid

Storeys Guide to Raising Series is the essential animal husbandry information from the trusted source. With a combined total of 1.7 million copies in print.

# Hardcover: 448 pages
# Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC; 3 edition (February 20, 2010)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1603424709
# ISBN-13: 978-1603424707

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Storeys Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds by Carol Ekarius

Farmers and fanciers keep an astonishing variety of poultry breeds in North America. These birds provide meat and eggs to nourish us and feathers to keep us warm. Their quirky personalities and charming good looks make them barnyard favorites. They inspire passionate devotion from show breeders and provide a living for farmers.

Presented here, breed by breed, are more than 120 barnyard fowl from chickens and turkeys to emus and pheasants. For each animal, readers will find stunning color photography, a brief history, and a detailed description. The identifying characteristics included for each breed are: class (standard and bantam); size (for cocks and hens); appearance of comb, wattles, and earlobes; color (everything from black-breasted red to silver laced); place of origin; conservation status; and special qualities (including longevity, size and quantity of eggs, quality of meat, and other relevant uses). Author Carol Ekarius provides enough information to satisfy both the dedicated browser and the serious farmer weighing the pros and cons of multiple breeds.

In 2005, Storeys Illustrated Guide to 96 Horse Breeds of North America celebrated horses in a coffee-table reference that captivated enthusiasts of all ages. Now farmers, breeders, backyard chicken keepers, and unabashed poultry fanatics will have a definitive guide of their own. If its poultry fair or fowl its in this book.

# Paperback: 288 pages
# Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC; 1 edition (May 30, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1580176674
# ISBN-13: 978-1580176675

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The Chicken Health Handbook by Gail Damerow

Review:
The editor of Rural Heritage has written a first-rate guide for the small producer interested in healthful meat and eggs as well as the exotic breed fancier raising birds for show. Having published a number of general guides to backyard poultry, including one for children, Damerow here concentrates on everything that can go wrong: diseases; problems associated with keeping birds in close quarters or caging them; litter; cannibalism; vitamin deficiency, resulting in poor molting; incubators that are too hot or too cold; predators; and the invasions of rats. She stresses that the best preventative measures involve protecting ones flock against outside influences (such as wild birds or other chickens), careful culling, and balanced nutrition. Damerow is a good writer, carefully walking the line between insulting the readers intelligence, a flaw with many books of this sort, and giving more technical information than growers need. Her discussion of how one keeps straight which chick came from which mating--which involves the injection of food dyes into fertilized eggs, and carefully marking the webbings of feet--is downright ingenious. Flawless. John Mort

# Paperback: 352 pages
# Publisher: Garden Way Publishing / Storey Communications, Inc; First Edition edition (January 6, 1994)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0882666118
# ISBN-13: 978-0882666112

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The Joy of Keeping Chickens: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit

Finally backyard farmers who want to keep a few hens for eggs have a bible thats attractive enough to leave out on the coffee table, and inexpensive enough to purchase on a whim. This comprehensive guide, written in charming prose from the perspective of an organic farmer, will appeal to readers who are interested in raising chickens, or simply want the best knowledge about how to cook them. With this in mind, farmer and animal expert Jennifer Megyesi discusses all the basic details of raising the birdsgeneral biology, health, food, choosing breeds, and so onand she cuts through the smoke to identify what terms like organic, free-range, and so on really mean for poultry farmers and consumers.

No chicken book would be complete without information on how to show chickens for prizes, and this is no different, but The Joy of Keeping Chickens also stresses the importance of self-sustainability and organic living, and the satisfaction of keeping heirloom breeds. Readers will appreciate the comprehensive nature of this readable, informative guide, and Megyesis enthusiasm about keeping chickens. Coupled with Geoff Hansens gorgeous full-color photographs, this text makes for an instant classic in the category.
100 color photographs

# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (February 25, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1602393133
# ISBN-13: 978-1602393134