Proven Techniques for Keeping Healthy Chickens (eBook)

The Backyard Guide to Raising Chicks, Handling Broody Hens, Building Coops, and More

Carissa Bonham (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
240 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-3722-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Chicken keeping is easier than you might think!

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Beginning and intermediate chicken keepers don't need to spend hours poring through extensive manuals and thick booksCarissa Bonham boils down chicken-keeping basics into 101 easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply tips, tricks, and chicken hacks. Advice ranges from learning how to grow your flock despite having a broody hen to directions for making a nesting box herb blend that will keep pests at bay and keep the coop smelling fresh. Other tips will touch on:Stretching your feed budget with fermentationMaking a predator-proof coopUsing your chickens to get your garden ready in the springCreating easy chicken chores for kidsAnd much more!Having raised a variety of chickens both inside her home and with the help of broody chicken moms, author Carissa Bonham is ready to share her chicken-keeping advice with others looking to add the joy of poultry to their lives. Her approach to chicken keeping focuses on keeping hens happy using natural methods so you can spend less time doing the dirty work and more time enjoying your flock.

Autor

Carissa Bonham is the owner and editor of the popular green lifestyle website Creative Green Living. She is active in several online chicken-keeping communities and her Instagram-famous chickens (follow them @CreativeGreenChickens) grace the pages of this book. She lives near Portland, Oregon, with a house full of boys and a yard full of chickens.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2018
• Zusatzinfo: color photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: baby chickens • baby chicks • Back to Basics • backyard chickens • backyard farm • Backyard Farming • backyard flock • Birding • books for preppers • books on baby chicks • books on backyard chickens • books on chicken coops • books on chicken farming • books on chickens • books on coops • books on homesteading • books on incubators • books on keeping chickens • books on self-sufficiency • books on urban farms • Breeding • brooder • butchering • chicken breeds • chicken coop • chicken farmers • chicken farming • chicken flock • chicken owners • chicken playground • chicken raising • chicken swing • chicken tractor • Chicks • coops • Country Living • DIY • diy projects • Do-It-Yourself • egg laying • Egg Production • farming • flocks storey • fresh eggs • Guinea Fowl • Hampshire • hatching • hen house • Homestead • Incubator • Keeping chickens • kits • Laying hens • livestock • local chicken • Mini Farming • non-gmo • Northeast • Organic Farming • Poultry • Prepper • Princeton • pullets • raise chickens • raised chickens • Raising chickens • Rambles • rearing • roosters • Self-Sufficiency • Sustainable • Tractors • Urban Farm
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-3722-7 / 1510737227
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-3722-8 / 9781510737228