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A beginner's guide to ruling the roost and raising happy backyard chickens
The Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens makes it easy to start keeping these surprisingly smart birds right in your own backyard. From constructing coops to rearing chicks, you'll learn everything you need to know to make sure your chickens stay happy and healthy all year round.
Which breed of chicken is right for you? What's the best bedding material? What sort of feed...
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"Deciding to raise chickens is one thing, but figuring out which breeds will suit your needs is another! Whether you're raising chickens for eggs, meat, showing, or as pets, The beginner's guide to chicken breeds has all the information you need to get started. This easy-to-use reference book will help you make the best decisions for beginning or expanding your flock. Get to know top-tier purebreeds and hybrids, optimal layers and broilers (and breeds...
3) An absolute beginner's guide to keeping backyard chickens: watch chicks grow from hatchlings to hens
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"Jenna Woginrich chronicles the life journey of three chickens from newly hatched to grown hens laying eggs of their own. As you watch these chickens grow, you'll learn everything you need to know about chicken behavior, feeding, housing, and health care"--
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Janey and Cleveland, two auditors for the US egg industry, become disenchanted with their chosen profession. They invent a plan to steal a million chickens--an entire egg farm of animals in order to give them a better life. They assemble a team and descend on the farm on a spring evening, it doesn't go as planned.
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"Our nameless narrator stubbornly tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive and safe over the course of one savage winter in Minnesota. Woefully unprepared for the task, she battles the relentless predators, severe weather and unforeseen bad luck--all the while grieving a recent miscarriage, and coming to terms with her infertility and the accompanying uncertainty that her future holds. Intimate and startlingly original, this slender novel...
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"Follows Cole's journey as she bonds with birds, learns about farming in the city and discovers some delicious dishes along the way." —The Washington Post
Chicken coops have never been so chic! From organic gardens in parking lots to rooftop beekeeping, the appeal of urban homesteading is widespread. Chicken and Egg tells the story of veteran food writer Janice Cole, who, like so many other urbanites, took up the revolutionary...
Chicken coops have never been so chic! From organic gardens in parking lots to rooftop beekeeping, the appeal of urban homesteading is widespread. Chicken and Egg tells the story of veteran food writer Janice Cole, who, like so many other urbanites, took up the revolutionary...
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