Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner’s Guide (Paperback)
Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you’ve ever tasted. The answer is chickens–endearing birds that require but a modest outlay of time, space and food.As they learned to raise chickens, Gail and Rick Luttmann came to realize the need for a comprehensive but clear and nontechnical guide. Their book covers all the basics in a light and entertaining sytle, from housing and feeding through incubating, bringing up chicks, butchering, and raising chickens for show.Througout the book, the Luttmanns express their wonder at the personalities of chickens–the role of brash protector played by roosters, and the instinctive motherliness of the hens. Given some freedom and attention, these birds can become much more than the egg-and-meat machines of commercial hatcheries and broiler factories. Chickens provide backyard farmers with enjoyable pastime, as well as a supply of good food.From the Back CoverCHICKENS IN YOUR BACKYARDA BEGINNER’S GUIDERick and Gail Lu (more…)
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Good Book, Bad Company
I initially ordered two (2) books from Amazon.com. This book was excellent, which they sent me two (2) copies of and billed me for two copies also.
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WELL WRITTEN, INFORMATIVE AND HUMOROUS
This is an excellent book and very easy to understand all the author’s concepts. She doesn’t talk over your head, uses her own experiences with chickens as examples, and manages…
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Chickens in your backyard!
This was very easy to read and it helped me discover that I didn’t want to raise chickens.
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Chickens in Your Backyard
This was a really good book. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to know how to raise a small flock for fun or profit. The book helped us enormously!
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Quick Read of Book
Chickens in your backyard is a good over all starter book. It would have been a little better if it specified dimensions for coup and nesting areas.
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easy read and informative
good book for beginner and explains things in an entertaining way. Definitely an easy read while on bus/train
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“Chickens in your Backyard”
Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner’s Guide
This summer I decided to adopt a few chickens to keep for eggs.
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practical
Good, practical information on a number of subjects related to raising chickens and problems one might encounter.
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A great beginner’s Chicken Book
This little paper back book is full of useful information. We checked it out from the libary so many times it started to fall apart.
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Great content…poor design
I learned a lot with this book, but the quality is awful. It looks like it has been poorly reproduced. The illustrations are not good at all.