First Time Chicken Keeping: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Chickens - A Step-by-Step Manual to Getting Started with Chickens (12) - Tapa blanda

Libro 13 de 14: First Time

Schneider, Andy

 
9781631599538: First Time Chicken Keeping: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Chickens - A Step-by-Step Manual to Getting Started with Chickens (12)
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ISBN 10: 1631599534 ISBN 13: 9781631599538
Editorial: Quarry Books, 2020

Sinopsis

Filled with down-to-earth, common-sense advice, this absolute beginner’s guide for first-time chicken keepers teaches you everything you want and need to know about raising a backyard flock.

Keeping backyard chickens can be fun and simple, even if you have limited backyard space. To get started keeping backyard poultry, you’ll learn about:

  • The benefits of a backyard chicken flock
  • Tips on negotiating chicken-keeping regulations
  • How to select a breed to suit your needs
  • The incubation process
  • The art of brooding
  • Setting up coops and runs
  • Proper poultry nutrition
  • How to protect your flock from predators
  • Illness prevention and treatment
With this knowledge, you can enjoy a more sustainable lifestyle with fresh eggs, free fertilizer (chicken poop!), and reduced household waste (chickens love table scraps!). Delight in the journey and achieve success with First Time Chicken Keeping.

Each book in the First Time series distills how-to guidance and advice from an expert on a specific topic into targeted step-by-step instruction geared toward the absolute beginner.

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Acerca del autor

Andy Schneider, better known as the Chicken Whisperer, has become the go-to guy for anything chickens. Over the years, he has helped a countless number of people start their very own backyard flocks. He is not only a well-known radio personality, as host of the "Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer" radio show, but also a contributor for Mother Earth News, Grit Magazine, and Farmers' Almanac. He is the national spokesperson for the USDA-APHIS Bio-Security for Birds Program. He is the Founder/Organizer of the Atlanta Backyard Poultry Meetup Group and many other Meetup Groups around the United States. He has been featured on CNN, HLN, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Economist, USA Today, New Life Journal, and other local and national publications. Andy has also been traveling around the U.S. on the Chicken Whisperer Tour, educating people about the many benefits of keeping a small backyard flock of chickens. Andy and his wife Jen keep 35 chickens on their property just north of Atlanta, Georgia. Visit him online at http://www.chickenwhisperer.com.

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Editorial
Quarry Books
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1631599534
ISBN 13 
9781631599538
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
128
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