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Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 3rd Edition
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| Part No: | 1603424695 |
| Manufacturer: | Storey Publishing, LLC |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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- ISBN13: 9781603424691
- Condition: New
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Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens includes all the information farmers need — from choosing breeds and hatching chicks to building coops and keeping the birds healthy and safe from predators — to keep chickens or run an egg business.
The 3rd edition, now with 188,000 copies in print contains new and expanded features:
• “Fowl Disposition” — new chapter on training chickens and understanding their intelligence
• Expanded coverage of hobby farming
• Disease section now includes information on avian influenza and fowl first aid
Storey's Guide to Raising Series is the essential animal husbandry information from the trusted source. With a combined total of 1.7 million copies in print.
Praise for the book:"I didn't know how much I didn't know until I bought this book." - Keith, Bakersfield, CA
| Does not cover your daily questions | 2010-09-02 | 2 / 5 |
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I don't like this book, because every time I had a problem with the chicken and tried to look it up I didn't find an answer. There are no cures for sick chicken and questions for a normal backyard chicken keeper are not covered.
Instead you will find lengthy descriptions about backyard chicken cages.
I like much more the book backyard poultry naturally because she gives solutions to problems. |
| Balanced and thorough | 2010-08-30 | 5 / 5 |
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| Typical Storey Publishing: Informative, thorough, balanced & in a manner respectful to animals and people. Covered all my questions and then-some! Can't wait to get started with our birds. |
| Comprehensive and complete | 2010-08-02 | 5 / 5 |
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| My husband just finished building a chicken coop, and we got our chickens two days ago. We followed Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens. The chickens must have really liked their coop, because even though we were told they probably wouldn't lay eggs for a week (since the transport of them stresses them out), we had an egg the very next day! This is a great book if you plan to raise chickens. |
| Encyclopedia of Chicken Keeping | 2010-07-24 | 5 / 5 |
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| I read this book cover to cover when it came in. It is fascinating the new things it has to teach you. Did you know that chickens can be artificially inseminated? Did you also know that you can inject food coloring into a developing egg to dye chicks before they hatch!? The stuff you learn in this book is very cool. The only downside is that some of the information is wrong, not quite right, or just lacking, and if you're new to chicken keeping, it may or may not have serious consequences. For example, on page 5, Ms. Damerow indentifies various feather types for the reader, but the labels are wrong. This is easily cleared up by an internet search. Another example, with more perilous consequences however, is on page 290. Here Ms. Damerow writes that most incubators require a relative humidity of 60% during incubation, and 70% during hatch. But most people will tell you that this is too high, and should be more like 45-50% during incubation and 70% during hatch. Finally, I also wish she would've addressed the topic of feeding poultry or raw egg to poultry. At one point in the book, she recommends feeding dry cat food to moulting chickens to increase their protein intake and help with feather production, but she fails to acknowledge that most cat food is made from chicken. Therefore, I highly recommend getting a second, supplemental book to go with this one. But overall, this is a very comprehensive book. |
| THE PERFECT BOOK ABOUT RAISING CHICKENS | 2010-04-24 | 5 / 5 |
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| I can't imagine a better book about raising chickens. Gail Damerow covers EVERY RELEVANT SUBJECT. Her writing style is so great that I find myself reading just for the pleasure of it. Her 40+ years of experience raising chickens has acquainted her with every possible subject and issue. She has also consulted with other experts to give the reader an even wider view on many subjects. I LOVE THIS BOOK! |
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