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Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl
By Gail Damerow
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Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks by Gail Damerow is a comprehensive guide for both novice and experienced poultry keepers. It provides detailed information on the entire process of hatching and brooding chicks, from selecting the right equipment to ensuring the health and safety of your birds. The book includes practical advice and insights on overcoming common challenges, making it an invaluable resource for anyone interested in raising their own chicks.
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You might enjoy this book if you are interested in the science and nature of raising your own chicks, offering practical guidance for both beginners and experienced poultry enthusiasts. It may appeal to those looking to understand the intricacies of chick health, incubating, and brooding, making it a useful resource for anyone aiming to start or improve their poultry-keeping journey.

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Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

Chicken expert Gail Damerow teaches readers how to raise all types of poultry chicks, and also explains what it takes to go to the next level and hatch them at home.

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Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects.

Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you'll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success in Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks.

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Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks by Gail Damerow is praised for its comprehensive coverage on managing and nurturing chicks, rich with detailed information and practical advice. Reviewers highlight its well-organised structure, complemented by a glossary and index, which makes it an exceptional resource for those interested in brooding and hatching various fowl. The book is recommended as an essential addition to any poultry enthusiast's collection, filled with insightful details and lesser-known facts.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781612120140

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 January 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 214.0mm

Height: 274.0mm

Weight: 780g

Pages: 240

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Gail Damerow Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including What s Killing My Chickens? and the best-selling Storey s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.

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