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Whether you want to raise 5 chickens or 50, whether you have a 40-foot city lot or a 40-acre farm, the expert advice in this hands-on guidebook makes it easy for you to get started raising a healthy flock. Whichever comes first for you, the chicken or the egg, this book will show you what to do next with longtime chicken breeder Christine Heinrichs explaining all the helpful DOs and important DON’Ts. This brightly illustrated, full-color guide will prove an indispensable resource for anyone interested in raising their very own flocks. Easy-to-follow advice helps you to: Choose breeds and obtain stock House and feed chickens Manage your flock and keep it healthy Select and cull for breeding programs Incubate eggs and care for chicks Raise chickens in the country, suburbs, or city The book provides information on breed types, obtaining stock, housing, feeding, flock management, breeding programs, incubation and care of chicks, selection and culling, showing, health care, and the legal aspects of raising chickens.
About the Author
Growing up in New York's north Jersey suburbs, I knew nothing about chickens. When my daughter wanted baby chicks, I got some, and searched for a book about them. There wasn't one, so, being a writer, I wrote one. When How to Raise Chickens was published in 2007, people were puzzled. "Is it a cookbook? " Today, every person I talk to is either raising chickens or knows someone who is. The change couldn't be more complete. How to Raise Poultry, comprising ducks, geese, turkeys, guineafowl and other domestically raised birds as well as chickens, was published in 2009, and a revised edition in 2014. Chickens became the mascot of the local food movement.My B.S. is in journalism from the University of Oregon, making me a Fighting Duck. Perhaps that was fortuitous and foretold a future that included a lot of poultry!The Backyard Field Guide to Chickens was published in 2016. The third edition of How to Raise Chickens was published in 2019.My magazine articles appear regularly in publications ranging from Audubon and Backyard Poultry to Diversity in Action. I am a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Environmental Journalists, Northern California Science Writers Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors and Ten Spurs, the honorary society of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. I am a member of the American Poultry Association, where I serve on the Flock Inspection Committee, the American Bantam Association and the Livestock Conservancy. I'm a member of the Association of Living History Farms and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM) and have written for their national and regional publications.
