The Chicken Health Handbook (Paperback)
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The editor of Rural Heritage has written a first-rate guide for the small producer interested in healthful meat and eggs as well as the exotic breed fancier raising birds for show. Having published a number of general guides to backyard poultry, including one for children, Damerow here concentrates on everything that can go wrong: diseases; problems associated with keeping birds in close quarters or caging them; litter; cannibalism; vitamin deficiency, resulting in poor molting; incubators that are too hot or too cold; predators; and the invasions of rats. She stresses that the best preventative measures involve protecting one’s flock against outside influences (such as wild birds or other chickens), careful culling, and balanced nutrition. Damerow is a good writer, carefully walking the line between insulting the reader’s intelligence, a flaw with many books of this sort, and giving more technical information than growers need. Her discussion of how one keep (more…)
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Excellent Resource
This is the third book by Gail Demerow I have in my “farm” library. Like the other two, it is well on it’s way to being a highlighted, dog-eared favorite resource for this small…
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Great Reference book
This is just what I wanted in a book on chicke health. Raising a large flock of chickens this helps me identify health problems big and small.
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Excellent reference book
This is an easy to understand reference book for anyone who
is raising chickens. Covers many chicken ailments as well
as how to keep them healthy and even hatching…
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Hoped for more user-friendly information
Although there is no doubt that the author is very knowledgeable on her subject, I found the book not very user friendly.
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Great Information
This book is a great resource for beginners and advanced chicken lovers. There is a lot of great information and it’s worded in a way that normal people can understand it!
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the chicken veterinary manual!
Packed with information, this thick book is what you need if you take the plunge and buy chickens. Full of sound, clear, detailed information about health care needs of chickens…
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best book
I raise chickens and needed a book to have on hand for certain things that come up or if I need an idea for something.
This book is the best one that I have.
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The Chicken Health Handbook
A book that should be read by anyone raising chickens. It gives the information on what can cause bad health, and what most problems are,and how to remedy some of the problems…
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Great so far
We are completely new to the ‘chicken world’ and this book has been a great reference so far. We have not read it through yet but have used it to look up specific things and it…
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Very Helpful!
This is a great book to have for anyone raising chickens. We have used it to treat our chicknes succsesfully in the past.