Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Edition: Breed Selection, Facilities, Feeding, Health Care, Managing Layers & Meat Birds
| AUTHOR | Damerow, Gail |
| PUBLISHER | Storey Publishing (12/26/2017) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
Revised and updated, this is the most trusted and comprehensive reference you can find for chicken care, housing, feeding, and health care. Serious poultry farmers and backyard bird raisers have relied on this best-selling reference for more than 20 years. The fourth edition of Gail Damerow's comprehensive handbook is now completely revised and redesigned, making it more accessible and informative than ever. You'll get the most up-to-date details on shelter, food, health care, eggs, chicks, and meat, and recent research into chicken behavior and communication makes the sections on flock management truly authoritative. New color photos and illustrations provide more specificity and information about chicken breeds, anatomy, and health.
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Product Details
ISBN-13:
9781612129303
ISBN-10:
1612129307
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
424
Carton Quantity:
16
Product Dimensions:
7.00 x 0.90 x 9.20 inches
Weight:
2.10 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Price on Product,
Glossary,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
CN
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Animal Husbandry
Technology & Engineering | Industries - Agribusiness
Technology & Engineering | Birds
Dewey Decimal:
636.5
Library of Congress Control Number:
2017034218
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Revised and updated, this is the most trusted and comprehensive reference you can find for chicken care, housing, feeding, and health care. Serious poultry farmers and backyard bird raisers have relied on this best-selling reference for more than 20 years. The fourth edition of Gail Damerow's comprehensive handbook is now completely revised and redesigned, making it more accessible and informative than ever. You'll get the most up-to-date details on shelter, food, health care, eggs, chicks, and meat, and recent research into chicken behavior and communication makes the sections on flock management truly authoritative. New color photos and illustrations provide more specificity and information about chicken breeds, anatomy, and health.
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Author:
Damerow, Gail
Gail Damerow, author of "The Chicken Health Handbook, 2nd Edition", has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen country skills how-to books, including the best-selling "Storey s Guide to Raising Chickens", "The Chicken Encyclopedia", and "Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks". Damerow is a regular contributor to "Backyard Poultry" and "Countryside "magazines. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard.
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