Town, country and in-between – your total guide to keeping chickens in any setting
Whatever your reasons for wanting to make chickens part of your life, the best way to get started is with Keeping Chickens For Dummies – your one-stop guide to choosing, housing, feeding, breeding, showing, selling and tending most common varieties of gallus domesticus.
Get up to speed with chickens 101 – immerse yourself in crucial chicken facts and figures, from basic biology and behaviours to common breeds and their varying requirements
Choose wisely – find the ideal breed for your lifestyle and long-term goals, and discover how to plan and buy a healthy flock
Set up home for your chickens – choose and build or buy a habitat for your flock, perform essential housekeeping and maintenance and keep your birds fat and happy
Breed a brood – discover how to mate your chickens, incubate eggs and hatch and nurture chicks
Be the Cheerful Reaper – manage laying hens, collect and store eggs, butcher meat birds and package and store meat
'For me, raising chickens, for eggs and meat, has beenone of the most enjoyable aspects of our family farm. I am a great admirer of "chicken whisperer" Pammy Riggs, and with her two co-authors she has produced an admirably thorough guide to enjoying the pleasures and avoiding the pitfalls of keeping chickens. Get the book, and take the feathery plunge!'– Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Open the book and find:
Chicken-keeping basics
The truth behind common misconceptions
A gold mine of chicken health tips
Do-it-yourself housing ideas
The best feeds for different breeds
How to ward off pests and predators
How to optimise your layers' laying
The lowdown on raising meat birds
Important legal considerations with keeping chickens
Learn to:
Feed and care for your chickens
Breed and rear chickens
Construct the perfect hen house
Keep your chickens happy and healthy
