How to Keep Backyard Chickens - A Straightforward Beginner's Guide

by Jill b.

Overview

Are You Thinking of Keeping Chickens But Don't Know Where to Start?

This Beginner's Chicken-Keeping Guide Will Help You:

Get Started - Who to Talk to Before You Get Chickens.
Decide Which Chicken Breed or Breeds To Get Based On the Characteristics That You Are Looking For In A Chicken.
To Find Or Purchase Your First Flock
To Find Feed Dealers
To Find Everything You Need To Set Up Your Brooder and Your Coop.
To Care for Your Chicks
Integrate Your Chicks If You Already Have An Existing Flock.
To Manage Your Chicken Litter and More!

Special Section With Tips On Deterring Predators:
The author's homestead is also home to abundant wildlife including: foxes, bears, raccoons, hawks and even mountain lions. While no method is 100% fool-proof, the author includes tips and ideas on how to you can help to protect your chickens from predators.

Special Section On Egg Preservation:
What do you do when you have an abundance of eggs? The book includes preservation techniques such as pickling, brining, freezing and waxing.

Buy this book & get started today!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150156210
Publisher:	Abundant Publishing
Publication date:	10/15/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

HomeGrown * HomeMade * HomeBusiness * HOMESTEAD

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Jill b. is an author, entrepreneur, homesteader and is the co-inventor and co-founder of Chicken Armor (), an affordable, low maintenance chicken saddle. She has also written over a dozen homesteading and home business books.

With a no-nonsense style, Jill draws from her own experiences and mistakes, and writes books focusing on maximizing output with minimal input to save you time and money.

Jill has been mentioned/quoted in various publications including The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Denver Post and ABC News. She has written for various magazines including Countryside and Small Stock Journal, Molly Green, Farm Show Magazine and Backyard Poultry Magazine. She holds an Engineering degree from an Ivy League from a previous life.

At its height, her homestead included over 100 chickens, geese and ducks, as well as cats, a dog, bees and a donkey named Elvis. She currently lives on her homestead in rural Oregon.

Learn more by visiting her site