An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Backyard Chickens: Watch Chicks Grow from Hatchlings to Hens

by Jenna Woginrich

Overview

Learn everything you need to know to be successful in raising and keeping a happy, healthy flock. 

With delightful photographs, Jenna Woginrich chronicles the day-to-day progress of Amelia, Honey, and Tilda from fluffy, newly hatched chicks to grown hens laying eggs of their own. 

Both entertaining and educational, this highly accessible guide provides just the right amount of information to get started and enjoy the pleasures of keeping backyard chickens, including: 

• Understanding chicken behavior
• Housing and feeding requirements
• Hygiene and basic health care 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635865189
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	12/21/2021
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jenna Woginrich is the author of An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Backyard Chickens, Barnheart and Made from Scratch. She blogs at coldantlerfarmny.com, as well as for the Huffington Post and Mother Earth News. She shares her farm in rural New York with chickens and geese, sheep, a hive of bees, and some amiable rabbits.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 8

Preface 9

Chapter 1 First Things First: Why Chickens 11

Chapter 2 Next: Which Chickens 21

Chapter 3 Hen Housing 32

Chapter 4 Poultry Prep 40

Chapter 5 Welcome Home, Girls Week 1 47

Chapter 6 Growing Up Weeks 2-7 67

Chapter 7 From Chicks to Chickens Months 3-6 93

Chapter 8 It's Egg Time 105

Appendix: Breed Chart 114

Appendix: Parasites, Diseases, and Allments 120

Resources 123

Index 126