Chickens in Your Backyard, Newly Revised and Updated: A Beginner's Guide
By (Author) Gail Damerow
By (author) Rick Luttmann
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Rodale Books
15th May 2018
United States
General
Non Fiction
Gardening
Reference works
Birds, including cage birds, as pets
636.5
Paperback
176
Width 165mm, Height 232mm, Spine 15mm
231g
All the basics (and beyond!) for happy, healthy chickens. 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.
Gail Damerow and her husband operate a family farm in Tennessee where they keep poultry and dairy goats, tend a sizable garden, and maintain a small orchard. They grow and preserve much of their own food, make their own yogurt and ice cream, and bake their own bread. Gail has written extensively on raising livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural skills. She shares her experience and knowledge as a regular contributor to Backyard Poultry and Countryside magazines, as an occasional contributor to numerous other periodicals, and as the author or contributor to more than a dozen country skills how-to books.