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With 372,000 copies in print, this is the most trusted and comprehensive reference on every aspect of chicken care, housing, feeding, and health care. The full-color new edition features the most current practices and a fresh new design. 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. AUTHOR: 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 the best-selling Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a regular contributor to Backyard Poultry, Countryside, and Rural Heritage 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. SELLING POINTS: A best-selling classic reference now in full color and larger format Updated information and new sections Part of Storey's Guide to Raising series: 2.2 million copies sold Chickens are the most popular backyard livestock
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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.
Title: Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens Fourth Edition
Edition: Fourth Edition
ISBN Number: 1612129307
ISBN-13: 9781612129303
Location Published: USA, Storey Publishing: 2018
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: New
Size: 23.5 x 17.8 x 0.21 cm
Kg: 0.96 Kg
Type: Book
Categories: Poultry Farming, Chickens
Seller ID: 9781612129303
Keywords: 1612129307, 4e, 4th ed, 9781612129303, edn, fourth edition, gail damerow, storey's guide to raising chickens, storeys
