Getting Started With Your Working Chicken - Anna Hess

Getting Started With Your Working Chicken

By Anna Hess

  • Release Date: 2013-02-12
  • Genre: Lifestyle & Home
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 16 Ratings

Description

Get ready for your new flock in thirty minutes or less!

This short, sweet, and self-sufficient guide shows beginners how to keep chickens as part of a rural or urban homestead. Learn everything you need to know to get started on your poultry adventure, with quick answers to frequently asked questions like:

What kind of chickens should I get?

Which color eggs are best?

How many chickens should I get?

Should I add a rooster to my flock?

Where should I get my chickens?

She's so cute! Can I name her?

When should I kill my chickens?

What infrastructure do I need to make my chickens happy?

What should I feed my chickens?

Should my chickens have a tractor, a coop, or be free range?

How much space do my chickens need?

How do I manage my working flock?

What is the chicken's place in the farm ecosystem?

"The author gives just what is needed to get started raising chickens." —- Veronica

"This is a quick little book packed with lots of good realistic advice." —- TSP

"A great first-read for anyone considering raising chickens. Lots of useful factual information for the experienced chicken keeper as well as for the beginner." —- pamela

Reviews

  • Good Book

    5
    By Newbie (Chris)
    This book gave me ideas that I had not thought about. I grew up piddling with small scale farming, had a fairly large flock of RIR and Dominiques sun my teen years. Of course life and racing toward the next level got in the way. Now I’m back to real life again and happened across the book. Thought I knew it all, but as I’ve found out many times before there is always an idea or different technique, this book lays out quite a few.

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