Raising Healthy Poultry

Your hands-on guide to modern chicken-raising methods Thinking about raising chickens? You've come to the right place! This new edition of Raising Chickens For Dummies provides the most up-to-date, thorough information on the many aspects of keeping chickens in your backyard. Inside, you'll find hands-on, easy-to-follow instructions on choosing and purchasing chickens, constructing housing for your birds, feeding your chickens for optimal health, combating laying issues, controlling pests and predators, optimizing egg production, and much more. Raising chickens on a small scale is a popular—and growing—pastime. If you're interested in keeping chickens as pets or as a source for eggs, Raising Chickens For Dummies gives you plain-English explanations of everything you need to know to about caring for chickens. Inside, you'll learn about basic chicken biology, breeds, and behavior, which chicken breed is best for you, how many you need, ways to spot healthy chickens, how to build a chicken coop, best practices for mating your chickens, how to incubate eggs, how to hatch and nurture chicks, manage laying hens, collect and store eggs, and butcher meat birds. Offers practical advice on choosing and purchasing chickens Helps you construct the right housing for your chickens Provides tips on feeding and caring for your chickens Includes top tips for raising healthy chickens Whether you're a first-time poulterer or you've been raising chickens for years, this comprehensive guide provides practical how-to advice for keeping chickens in virtually any backyard. Raising Chickens For Dummies (9781119675921) was previously published as Raising Chickens For Dummies (9781118982785). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.

"Fresh Eggs Daily blogger Steele lays down as many tips and recipes as her chickens do eggs in this innovative and plucky collection.... This will be hard to beat." – Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Lisa Steele, fifth-generation chicken keeper and founder of the popular blog Fresh Eggs Daily, knows a thing or two about eggs. And she’s ready to show you just how easy and delicious it can be to make eggs a staple of every meal. First, Lisa will tell you everything you don’t know about eggs—such as what the different labels on grocery store egg cartons mean—and bust some common egg myths. From there, she provides you with foundational techniques for cooking with eggs, including steaming, grilling, baking, and frying. And finally, Lisa shares her go-to recipes for everything from breakfast staples, like eggs Benedict and a classic French trifold “omelette,” to breads, sandwiches, beverages, snacks, soups, salads, pasta, cakes, pies, and condiments. You’ll encounter a wide variety of both sweet and savory dishes with Lisa’s unique twists. Read The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook to discover new and exciting ways to incorporate fresh eggs into your cooking and baking repertoire each and every day.

Expert advice on selecting breeds, caring for chicks, producing eggs, raising broilers, feeding, troubleshooting, and much more.

Learn how to build a DIY chicken coop and enjoy the wonders of fresh, healthy eggs! Do you want to raise your own chickens, but you don't know where to start? Are you interested in saving money by building your own coop? Then this book is for you! Raising chickens and collecting eggs is a rewarding experience. Whether you want to enjoy fresh eggs, raise chickens for meat, or simply know that your food is coming from healthy, happy birds, a chicken coop is a brilliant way of maintaining a sustainable and self-reliant food source. This practical guide provides step-by-step instructions for building a cost-effective DIY chicken coop. No matter your coop needs, or how many chickens you plan to have, inside you'll discover all the must-know factors that make a good, safe, and cost-effective coop. Inside, you'll find: Why YOU Should Be Raising and Caring For Your Own Chickens 7 Incredible Benefits of DIY Chicken Coops All The Essential Things To Consider When Deciding on Your DIY Coop Top 10 Tips For Building Your Coop In The Most Effective Way How To Save Money and Avoid The Pitfalls of Store-Bought Coops 7 Critical Beginner Mistakes To Avoid! And So Much More! With bonus tips on chicken runs, what to put on the floor of your coop, and the best ways to keep your chickens safe from predators, this guide is your all-in-one ticket to starting your own backyard chicken coop! If you want to become more self-sufficient, make sure your eggs are coming from an ethical place, or simply experiment with farmyard life, then this book is for you! Buy now to building your DIY chicken coop today!

A beginner's guide to ruling the roost and raising happy backyard chickens The Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens makes it easy to start keeping these surprisingly smart birds right in your own backyard. From constructing coops to rearing chicks, you'll learn everything you need to know to make sure your chickens stay happy and healthy all year round. Which breed of chicken is right for you? What's the best bedding material? What sort of feed should you use? Expert chicken keeper Anne Kuo answers these questions―and many others―in this fun and friendly reference book that will get you excited to raise your new feathered friends. This book on raising chickens guides you through: Getting from the chicken to the egg―Find out how to raise chicks, keep your birds safe from predators, introduce new birds to the flock, and more. Creating a custom coop―Build the perfect home for raising chickens with detailed backyard coop construction guides. Expert care advice--Learn how to identify different behaviors in your chicken, help solve egg shortages, and navigate a range of potential surprises with confidence. Get your first flock started successfully with The Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens.

Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.

Discover a Complete Guide for Making the Best Chicken Coop in Your Backyard With a Lot of Happy and Healthy Chickens! It's becoming harder and harder, in today's world, to find food raised and cultivated to be healthy and tasty. So, how to solve that problem? By growing and nurturing food in your backyard, of course.  Would you like to: - Have fresh eggs and chicken meat every day? - Eat healthy and tasty food full of flavor? - Raise a chicken coop full of happy and healthy chickens? But you: - Don't have any experience with raising chickens? If your answer to any of the questions above is "yes," then this beginner's guide to raising healthy and happy backyard chickens is perfect for you. If you follow the step-by-step instructions, you will have a chicken coop full of happy and healthy chickens that will provide you fresh, organic eggs and meat every day. Here is what this excellent guide will offer you: - Chicken FAQ: Find out why raising chickens in your backyard is the best option for you. - Planning guide: Discover the easiest way to plan which type of coop is best for you, where to put it, and how many chickens to have. - Coop building strategies: Learn how to build the perfect coop - from materials to bedding and accessories, or if you are not a DIY person, which one to buy. - Choosing the chickens: Discover which chicken breed is most suitable for your needs. - Maintenance guide: Find out the easiest way to do maintenance once everything is up and running. If you want to have healthy, tasty, and organic food you are proud of, on your dining table every day, all you have to do is follow the easy step-by-step guides found in this book. So, what are you waiting for?