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How to Raise Chickens

How to Raise Chickens


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Whether you want to raise 5 chickens or 50, have a 40-foot city lot or a 40-acre farm, the expert advice in Future Farmers of America (FFA)-licensed How to Raise Chickens makes it easy for young readers and beginners to get started raising a healthy flock.

Whichever comes first for you, the chicken or the egg, this book shows what to do next with the help of longtime chicken breeder Christine Heinrichs, who explains all the helpful dos and important don'ts. Easy-to-follow advice helps readers:

  • 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
How to Raise Chickens 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. Reviewed and approved by Dr. Clint Rusk (Purdue University Associate Professor in the Youth Development and Agriculture Education Department), this book will give you the tools you need to succeed in raising these challenging but rewarding animals.

Beautifully designed and authoritatively written, How to Raise Chickens is a trusted source of information to new chicken keepers of all ages, sure to inspire further investigation of the hobby.
About the Author:

Christine Heinrichs has been a professional writer for more than 30 years. She received a B.S. in journalism from the University of Oregon. She has written hundreds of magazine articles for a wide range of publications, from Audubon and Earth Island Journal to Atlas Obscura to Backyard Poultry. Her narratives on condors have twice, and elephant seals once, won Ten Spurs awards from the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Environmental Journalists, American Society of Journalists and Authors, and other professional groups. She keeps a mixed flock of Standard breed chickens at her California home.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780760364130
  • Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
  • Publisher Imprint: Voyageur Press (MN)
  • Edition: Enlarged edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 730 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0760364133
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Series Title: Ffa
  • Sub Title: Everything You Need to Know, Updated & Revised Third Edition
  • Width: 188 mm


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