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Your hands-on guide to modern chicken-raising methods Thinking about raising chickens? You've come to the right place! This new edition of Raising Chickens For Dummies provides the most up-to-date, thorough information on the many aspects of keeping chickens in your backyard. Inside, you'll find hands-on, easy-to-follow instructions on choosing and purchasing chickens, constructing housing for your birds, feeding your chickens for optimal health, combating laying issues, controlling pests and predators, optimizing egg production, and much more. Raising chickens on a small scale is a popular and growing pastime. If you're interested in keeping chickens as pets or as a source for eggs, Raising Chickens For Dummies gives you plain-English explanations of everything you need to know to about caring for chickens. Inside, you'll learn about basic chicken biology, breeds, and behavior, which chicken breed is best for you, how many you need, ways to spot healthy chickens, how to build a chicken coop, best practices for mating your chickens, how to incubate eggs, how to hatch and nurture chicks, manage laying hens, collect and store eggs, and butcher meat birds.
* Offers practical advice on choosing and purchasing chickens * Helps you construct the right housing for your chickens * Provides tips on feeding and caring for your chickens * Includes top tips for raising healthy chickens Whether you're a first-time poulterer or you've been raising chickens for years, this comprehensive guideprovides practical how-to advice for keeping chickens in virtually any backyard.
Contents
Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Raising Chickens 5 Chapter 1: The Joy of Chickens 7 Chapter 2: Basic Chicken Biology and Behavior 21 Chapter 3: A Chicken Isn t Just a Chicken: Your Guide to Breeds 45 Chapter 4: Buying Chickens 65 Part II: Housing Your Flock 85 Chapter 5: Choosing Your Housing Type 87 Chapter 6: Designing and Constructing a Coop 111 Chapter 7: Coop, Sweet Coop: Furnishing and Housekeeping 133 Part III: Caring for Your Flock: General Management 149 Chapter 8: Feeding Your Flock 151 Chapter 9: Controlling Pests and Predators 175 Chapter 10: Keeping Your Flock Happy and Healthy 193 Chapter 11: Handling Health Problems 217 Part IV: Breeding: From Chicken to Egg and Back Again 247 Chapter 12: Mating Your Chickens 249 Chapter 13: Incubating Eggs and Hatching Chicks 267 Chapter 14: Raising Chicks 295 Part V: Special Management Considerations 319 Chapter 15: Managing Layers and Collecting Eggs 321 Chapter 16: Raising and Butchering Meat Birds 349 Part VI: The Part of Tens 383 Chapter 17: More than Ten Tips for Keeping Healthy, Stress-Free Chickens 385 Chapter 18: More than Ten Misconceptions about Chickens, Eggs, and So On 393 Index 401
