A Chicken in Every Yard: The Urban Farm Store's Guide to Chicken Keeping Author: Robert Litt | Language: English | ISBN:
B004FGLX38 | Format: PDF
A Chicken in Every Yard: The Urban Farm Store's Guide to Chicken Keeping Description
Got a little space and a hankering for fresh eggs?
Robert and Hannah Litt have dispensed advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers from behind their perch at Portland’s Urban Farm Store, and now they’re ready to help you go local and sustainable with your own backyard birds. In this handy guide to breeds, feed, coops, and care, the Litts take you under their experienced wings and share the secrets to:
Picking the
breeds that are right for you • Building a sturdy
coop in one weekend for $100 • Raising happy and hearty
chicks •
Feeding your flock for optimal health and egg nutrition • Preventing and treating common chicken diseases •
Planning ahead for family, neighborhood, and legal considerations • Whipping up tasty egg
recipes from flan to frittata
With everything that first-timers will need to get started—along with expert tips for more seasoned keepers—this colorful, nuts-and-bolts manual proves that keeping chickens is all it’s cracked up to be.
From the Hardcover edition.- File Size: 2739 KB
- Print Length: 208 pages
- Publisher: Ten Speed Press; 1 edition (March 22, 2011)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004FGLX38
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,879 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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This is the only book you need if you want to keep a few chickens in your yard.
Flipping through a lot of the other highly-rated chicken books, it quickly became clear that most of them are oriented toward large-scale chicken keeping. Sure, some have added token acknowledgement that some people keep chickens as pets that happen to lay eggs, but the tone and the information are suited toward people who don't plan to name their chickens or tell stories about their antics. They're low on details about how tall a fence should be to keep the chickens from ravaging your vegetable garden, and discredit methods like clipping wings because it's just not viable if you have 200 birds.
If you want to experience the joy of cracking open an egg still warm from the chicken, of knowing exactly what the chicken ate and how it was cared for, of knowing that the only carbon footprint involved in your breakfast was your trip down to the feed store every few months, this is the book for you. If you have no plans whatsoever of eating your chicken just because it stopped laying 7 eggs a week, this is the book for you. If you want a practical guide for housing chickens in a small urban back yard, heck, this book even has detailed plans for building a simple but safe coop and run. It even has a neat breakdown of how much time you will need to set aside for caring for your birds (five minutes in the morning to feed and collect eggs and let the birds out, five minutes in the evening to feed and collect eggs, and lock the door of the coop, 20 minutes once a week to add more bedding, and so on) so you have some idea of what time commitment you're actually making.
By Silea
TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE VOICE
I must have 10 books on raising chickens, trying to be as educated as possible before I get started with the birds. This is the best of them. It is clear, concise, practical, very readable. This is the book you read first, and keep on the shelf for questions as they develop. Wish I lived close enough to visit with Robert and Hannah.
By KS
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