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Chickens 1-2-3
Essential information—from keeping your new chicks warm to collecting still-warm eggs
It's surprisingly easy to be a backyard chicken-keeper. With lively text and charming photographs, this guide follows the day-by-day and week-by-week growth of three chickens as they develop from hatchlings to laying hens. First-hand advice on chicken behavior, breed selection, feed requirements, safe housing, hygiene, and health-care essentials ensures that your own flock will be as healthy and well cared for as this contented trio.
A Visual Diary from Day 1 to Month 6
About the author
Jenna Woginrich is the author of An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Backyard Chickens, Barnheart and Made from Scratch. She blogs at coldantlerfarmny.com, as well as for the Huffington Post and Mother Earth News. She shares her farm in rural New York with chickens and geese, sheep, a hive of bees, and some amiable rabbits.
Summary
From hatchlings to adult laying hens, every stage of a chicken's growth is shown and explained in this highly accessible, photographic introduction to the basics of keeping chickens, including behavior, housing, feeding, hygiene, and health care.
Foreword
From hatchlings to adult laying hens, every stage of a chicken's growth is shown and explained in this highly accessible, photographic introduction to the basics of keeping chickens, including behavior, housing, feeding, hygiene, and health care.
