An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Backyard Chickens

Name: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Backyard Chickens
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781635865189
Price: 29.99 NZD
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Watch Chicks Grow from Hatchlings to Hens

By Jenna Woginrich

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An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Backyard Chickens by Jenna Woginrich offers a practical and comprehensive introduction to raising chickens in your backyard. It covers essential topics such as selecting the right breed, building a coop, and maintaining the health of your birds. Written for beginners, it provides step-by-step guidance and tips to help you successfully care for your flock.
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If you find joy in the simplicity of nature and are curious about starting a small-scale, rewarding hobby, this guide offers insights into raising chickens in your own backyard. It may appeal to you if you are a beginner eager for practical tips, straightforward advice, and a touch of personal narrative to help you embark on this fulfilling adventure.

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Backyard Chickens

From hatchlings to adult laying hens, every stage of a chicken's growth is shown and explained in this highly accessible, photographic introduction to the basics of keeping chickens, including behavior, housing, feeding, hygiene, and health care.

Description

With delightful photographs, Jenna Woginrich chronicles the life journey of three chickens (Amelia, Honey, and Tilda) from fluffy, newly hatched bundles to grown hens laying eggs of their own.

Following their progress from day to day and week to week, you'll learn everything you need to know to be successful in raising and keeping a happy, healthy flock.

Topics covered include understanding chicken behaviour, housing and feeding requirements, hygiene, and basic health care.

Both entertaining and educational, this highly accessible book provides just the right amount of information to get started and enjoy the pleasures of keeping backyard chickens.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781635865189

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 December 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: Full-color; photographs throughout

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 128

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Jenna Woginrich Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Jenna Woginrich is the author of An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Backyard Chickens, Barnheart and Made from Scratch. She blogs at coldantlerfarmny.com, as well as for the Huffington Post and Mother Earth News. She shares her farm in rural New York with chickens and geese, sheep, a hive of bees, and some amiable rabbits.