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Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow $14.95 +5.00 shipping From starting your own back yard flock to putting eggs on the table, this guide gives you easy to understand advice every step of the way. You’ll learn how to: choose the right breed, care for chicks, build feeders and shelters, collect and store eggs, maintain good flock health, raise broilers for meat, and show your chickens. |
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Storey’s Guide to Raising Poultry by Leonard S. Mercia $14.90 +5.00 shipping An invaluable resource for anyone who raises poultry, containing the most comprehensive and current information on selecting birds for meat or egg production, housing and equipment, home processing of eggs and poultry, flock health, and brooding and rearing.
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Your Chickens: A Kid’s Guide to Raising and Showing by Gail Damerow $11.95 +4.25 shipping This book tells you everything you need to know about raising chickens, including information on choosing, purchasing, raising and showing all types. Whether you want to raise chickens for fun or to make money, you will get friendly and wise advice, including important charts and checklists.
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Chicken Health Handbook by Gail Damerow $15.60 +5.00 shipping This must-have reference for the small flock owner covers problems and diseases common to chickens of all breeds and all ages. Generously illustrated, the handbook teaches you how to: hatch healthy chicks, provide proper nutrition, fight parasites, spot diseases and infections in their early stages, protect flocks from predators, and build safe houses and yards. |
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A Guide to Better Hatching by Janet Stromberg $7.50 +4.75 shipping This guide details the numerous factors affecting the successful hatching of all fowl, with emphasis on the proper handling of the egg before and during incubation.
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Pastured Poultry Profit$ by Joel Salatin $22.50 +5.00 shipping This book details a proven production model capable of producing an income, from a small acreage, equal or superior to most off-farm jobs. Topics include the benefits of pastured poultry, as well as practical instruction in the areas of brooding, pasturing, processing, troubleshooting and marketing.
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Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil by Andy Lee & Pat Foreman $18.90 +5.00 shipping In the all new straw bale edition, you will learn that a chicken tractor is a bottomless, portable pen that fits over your garden beds. This is a revolutionary, practical, hands-on book for gardeners and poultry growers.
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Day Range Poultry: Every Chicken Owner’s Guide to Grazing Gardens and Improving Pastures by Andy Lee & Pat Foreman $18.20 +5.00 shipping Discover how easy and profitable it is to sell chickens, eggs, and turkeys raised in gardens or on pastures. You do not need a lot of land or a large investment. Learn about the revolutionary day range system of raising poultry on pasture that is low maintenance with high profit.
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MSD AGVET Flock Supervisors Manual by Merck & Co. $5.00 +4.25 shipping A convenient and comprehensive guide to disease management and diagnostic procedure, this manual has become a trusted standard reference to poultry service representatives worldwide. |
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Caponizing by Loyl Stromberg $8.55 +3.50 shipping This guide details the management and marketing of capons, including a description of the process of caponizing fowl.
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From Egg to Chick by S.F. Ridlen, H.S. Johnson, & K.W. Koelkebeck $4.85 +2.50 shipping Published by the Cooperative Extension of the University of IL, this is a brief guide to the study of incubation and embryonic development. |
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Eggs and Chickens by John Vivian $3.00 +1.75 shipping From the Storey’s Country Wisdom Bulletin Library, this 32 page booklet contains practical, hands-on instructions to help you master country living skills quickly and easily. |
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Success With Baby Chicks by Robert Plamondon $14.40 +4.25 shipping This engaging, practical book describes how to raise baby chicks, using brooder-house techniques that, though largely forgotten, were once used on millions of American farms. Anyone can raise baby chicks successfully using these simple proven methods. |
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Pasture Perfect by Jo Robinson $13.05 +4.25 shipping Robinson, a champion of a more natural way to raise livestock describes the far-reaching benefits of choosing meat, eggs, and dairy products from grass fed animals.
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