The Backyard Chicken Keeper's Handbook

Everything You Need to Raise Healthy, Happy Chickens at Home

von Nicolas Troisi

60 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Keeping backyard chickens looks simple until the coop is built wrong, thewrong breed struggles through your first winter, or a health problem goesunnoticed for two days too long. The Backyard Chicken Keeper's Handbook isthe practical, no-fluff guide built to get a beginner from "we want>Inside, you'll find:

Everything you need to choose the right flock -- how many birds to startwith, ten popular breeds compared side by side for egg output, temperament, and cold hardiness, and how to pick a purpose (eggs, meat, or>Real numbers for building the coop and run: square footage per bird, ventilation requirements, roost and nesting box dimensions, and thepredator-proofing details -- hardware cloth, buried aprons, raccoon-proof>A complete care system: feed types by age, daily and weekly routines, month-by-month egg production explained, seasonal care through everyweather extreme, and a full chapter on raising chicks from incubation to>A dedicated troubleshooting guide, built the way you'd actually use it at7 a.m. before work -- symptom, likely cause, what to check, what to do -->First-week, daily, weekly, coop-cleaning, and winter-prep checklists youcan run through instead of trying to remember it all, plus sample record>Whether you're bringing home your first three hens or finally building thecoop you've been planning for years, this handbook gives you the real, practical answers -- not just the encouragement.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175685511
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published