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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.
About the Author
Kimberley Willis lives with her husband Steve near the small town of Clifford, Michigan. They have a small farm with an abundance of animals and gardens. Kimberley has retired from the Lapeer County Extension office as a home horticulturist but still publishes a weekly garden newsletter on her blog. Besides her chicken flock Kim also enjoys gardening, cooking, photography and reading. Kim and Steve have 3 grown children, 8 grandchildren and 5 great grand children.Kimberley has written four books; The Complete Idiots Guide to Country Living, Knacks Canning, Pickling and Preserving, Beer, a Cookbook and Raising Chicken for Dummies, which has been updated with a second edition. She is the country living and gardening writer for Detroit Examiner. You can read her articles there at www.examiner.com/x-22968-Detroit-Gardening-Examiner or www.examiner.com/x13632-Detroit-country-living-examinerYou can read her blog at www.gardeninggranny.blogspot.com or see the feed here of newer blogs.
