Storey’s Guide To Raising Chickens
$24.95
Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens (4th Edition) is your complete handbook for raising a thriving, healthy flock from day one. Whether you’re collecting fresh eggs for the family, showing your birds at fairs, or raising chickens for meat, this go-to resource covers everything you need to know — from choosing the right breeds and building secure coops to feeding, watering, hatching, and protecting your birds from disease and predators.
Get new insights on biosecurity, organic practices, natural health care, and humane management, along with detailed charts, checklists, and full-color photographs to guide you every step of the way.
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Published by: Storey Publishing
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Storey's Guide To Raising Chickens
Serious poultry farmers and backyard bird raisers alike have relied on this best-selling reference for over two decades. The 4th Edition of Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens is completely revised and redesigned, making it more accessible and informative than ever.
Inside, you’ll find up-to-date guidance on shelters, feed, biosecurity and health, eggs, chicks, meat birds, and flock behavior—plus new color photos and illustrations that make tricky topics easy to see and do.
Whether you’re just getting started or ready to expand your flock, Gail Damerow’s clear, friendly instruction helps you choose the right breeds, prevent common problems, and keep your birds healthy and productive all year long.
What You’ll Learn
- Choosing a breed: selecting purebred vs. hybrid, evaluating birds, getting started
- Flock behavior: peck order, communication, and practical handling
- Shelter & housing: free-range, fenced range, portable vs. permanent coops, fencing
- Feed & water: feed types, routines, storage, watering essentials
- Routine management: predator protection, weather care, sanitation, manure handling
- Health care: biosecurity, parasites, disease resistance, first aid and hazards
- Laying-hen management: egg formation, nutrition, lighting, solving egg issues, flock replacement, egg sales
- Eggs for eating: collection, quality, safety, nutrition, and preserving eggs
- Breeding & genetics: breeder nutrition, mating, artificial insemination, selection & culling & more
- Incubation & brooding: natural and artificial incubation, candling, hatching, brooder setup, chick care
- Showing birds: rules, conditioning, coop training, master exhibitor tips
- Meat birds & processing: breeds, feeding and management, readiness, humane butchering, sanitation, storage
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