Chicken expert Gail Damerow teaches readers how to raise all types of poultry chicks, and also explains what it takes to go to the next level and hatch them at home.
Chicken expert Gail Damerow teaches readers how to raise all types of poultry chicks, and also explains what it takes to go to the next level and hatch them at home.
Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including What’s Killing My Chickens? and the best-selling Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. 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. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.
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Introduction Part 1: The Chicks 1 Acquiring Your First Chicks 2 Setting Up Your Brooder 3 Managing Water, Feed, and Bedding 4 What to Expect as They Grow 5 Hatchling Health Issues
Part 2: The Eggs 6 The Broody Hen 7 Selecting an Incubator 8 Eggs for Hatching 9 Operating an Incubator 10 What Went Wrong? 11 Hatchling Identification
Appendix: Screwpot Notions Glossary Acknowledgments Resources Index Interior Photography Credits
Introduction Part 1: The Chicks 1 Acquiring Your First Chicks 2 Setting Up Your Brooder 3 Managing Water, Feed, and Bedding 4 What to Expect as They Grow 5 Hatchling Health Issues
Part 2: The Eggs 6 The Broody Hen 7 Selecting an Incubator 8 Eggs for Hatching 9 Operating an Incubator 10 What Went Wrong? 11 Hatchling Identification
Appendix: Screwpot Notions Glossary Acknowledgments Resources Index Interior Photography Credits
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