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“Everything you need to know about chickens, all in one easy-to-understand volume: Breed selcetion, health issues, care and maintenace, incubating, hatching, feed and shelter, egg and meat prodution, and more. Many photos and illustrations, tables and index.” – Back Home
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Once you decide to raise chickens, you'll need all the information and advice you can get. And lucky for you, this book is as far as you'll have to look. A Guide to Raising Chickens contains everything you need to know, from starting your own backyard flock to putting eggs on the table. With easy-to-understand illustrations and text, this book shows you all about:
-- Choosing the right breed
-- Caring for chicks
--Feeding the growing flock
-- Building feeders and shelters
-- Collecting and storing eggs
-- Preventing health problems
-- Raising broilers for meat
-- Showing your chickens
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137 of 137 people found the following review helpful
By Anthony Dean
Format:Paperback
Finally, a complete reference that covers all the major areas of raising chickens. As a poultry farm and hatchery owner, I always suggest this book first to anyone interested in raising chickens. This is an indepth yet easy to read guide that is sure to educate even the most experienced chicken fancier. This book will help you choose the right breed of chicken, how to care for them, maintain their health, and meet your individual goals for your flock. This is currently the premier guide to raising chickens available.
77 of 77 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Best investment I made to help me raise my chickens! Information is right on, helped diagnosing "broody's" to viruses. Phenomenal information on hatching, breed types, feeding & behaviour. Other books I had purchased before were difficult to understand or just to generalized. I now have a flock of 16 free range chickens, (7 of them hatched by my hens), and my 8 mature hens are producing from 25 - 60 eggs a week. In comparison to my friend who has a flock of 35, my chickens are healthier (free range hers are caged), have little or no cannibalistic habits (her chickens are 1/2 bald for the fighting), and produce substantially more eggs than hers. Now I am buying her a copy for Christmas!
Most of the book is well organized and thought out. There are a few places where better cross referencing would help, but overall, you can find what you are looking for. Definite cover to cover read and keeper for future reference.
61 of 61 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This book is a complete guide to everything you need to know about raising chickens. I started as an ignorant amatuer and, after having read this book, know just about everything I need to know. It covers all the bases- health, showing, adult care, grower care, chick care, breeding, incubation and hatching, blueprints for housing, a helpful glossary, ect. I have raised a sucessful, healthy flock on this book alone! Good for an expert or beginner, expert exhibitor or amatuer, easy to understand, informative, and fun to read!
80 of 82 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Let me start off by saying that the information in this book is very solid. Gail Damerow has probably forgotten more about chickens than I will ever learn. This book is an excellent resource, and is more informative than any other chicken book I own (I own 8 or 9).
So your probably asking me why I gave it three stars. IT'S ONE OF THE MOST BORING BOOKS I'VE EVER READ. I expected a text book feel from Ms. Damerow because I'm familiar with her style (I own 3 books by her). Plus I'm used to books that have a text book approach. However, this one gets the boring (aka text book) prize of the year. I have honestly used this book for insomnia!!! Not a joke.
My final conclusion is that this book is worth having. I use it as a reference because the information packed in it's pages has no rival. But, If your looking for a beginner chicken book look at, "Choosing and keeping Chickens" By Chris Graham. It is informative, has a breed section (which this book really doesn't have), and is easily comprehended and applied. If your looking to learn about chickens and save money on prescription sleeping medication look no further. Who needs Ambien with this Gail Damerow boring you into a much needed state of somnolence.
WARNING!!!! If you read nothing else read this. This book comes up with a pamphlet on chicken coups on AMAZON searches. The pamphlet is written by Gail Damerow, and is a section from this book (word for word). You do not need to buy both. Again, the pamphlet about building chicken coups written by the same author is a word for word copy out of a chapter in this book. Please don't buy both.
So your probably asking me why I gave it three stars. IT'S ONE OF THE MOST BORING BOOKS I'VE EVER READ. I expected a text book feel from Ms. Damerow because I'm familiar with her style (I own 3 books by her). Plus I'm used to books that have a text book approach. However, this one gets the boring (aka text book) prize of the year. I have honestly used this book for insomnia!!! Not a joke.
My final conclusion is that this book is worth having. I use it as a reference because the information packed in it's pages has no rival. But, If your looking for a beginner chicken book look at, "Choosing and keeping Chickens" By Chris Graham. It is informative, has a breed section (which this book really doesn't have), and is easily comprehended and applied. If your looking to learn about chickens and save money on prescription sleeping medication look no further. Who needs Ambien with this Gail Damerow boring you into a much needed state of somnolence.
WARNING!!!! If you read nothing else read this. This book comes up with a pamphlet on chicken coups on AMAZON searches. The pamphlet is written by Gail Damerow, and is a section from this book (word for word). You do not need to buy both. Again, the pamphlet about building chicken coups written by the same author is a word for word copy out of a chapter in this book. Please don't buy both.
52 of 54 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
We got this book becuase one of my 4 chickens stopped laying and was just sitting in her box, looking ill. We were panicked until the book arrived and I read about "brooding".
We followed the book's instructions and she started laying again in 4 days!
Great help!
The only thing missing is an anatomy section on chickens...for us truly clueless.
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book and Damerow's other book, "The Chicken Health Handbook" are the two I recommend to new chicken owners. This book focuses on getting you started, and includes the following chapters:
1. Choosing the Perfect Chicken
2. Housing
3. Feeding
4. Meat Bird Management
5. Butchering Day (and Good Eating to Follow)
6. Layer Management
7. Table Eggs
8. Managing Breeders
9. Incubation and Hatching
10. Chicken Care
11. General Management
12. Health Management
13. Showing
Glossary
State Resources
Organizations
Recommended Reading
Videos
Suppliers
Index
The only quibble I have with this book is that Damerow includes very little on how to effectively treat a sick chicken, other than culling it. This can be unsettling to the novice poultry owner, who is not always ready to cull those birds that are pets. That's why I like to recommend also purchasing her other book on health (see above.) It is a much more exhaustive reference with symptoms and treatments for various illnesses (chickens, unfortunately, are susceptible to a large number of ailments.)
But all in all this is a very good book for the beginning fancier, and well worth the purchase.
1. Choosing the Perfect Chicken
2. Housing
3. Feeding
4. Meat Bird Management
5. Butchering Day (and Good Eating to Follow)
6. Layer Management
7. Table Eggs
8. Managing Breeders
9. Incubation and Hatching
10. Chicken Care
11. General Management
12. Health Management
13. Showing
Glossary
State Resources
Organizations
Recommended Reading
Videos
Suppliers
Index
The only quibble I have with this book is that Damerow includes very little on how to effectively treat a sick chicken, other than culling it. This can be unsettling to the novice poultry owner, who is not always ready to cull those birds that are pets. That's why I like to recommend also purchasing her other book on health (see above.) It is a much more exhaustive reference with symptoms and treatments for various illnesses (chickens, unfortunately, are susceptible to a large number of ailments.)
But all in all this is a very good book for the beginning fancier, and well worth the purchase.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cute
After reading this book I feel I have been provided with the tools needed to bring cute and fluffy chickens to mature hens.
Published 26 days ago by Roy
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book on chickens
Very much like this book, very informitive. I am getting started in chickens and would recommend as a good reference book.
Published 2 months ago by Melody J Tillman
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good info on chickens!
My chickens are happy I got this book, lots of valuable information, I refer to it all the time, good price.
Published 4 months ago by M. Richard
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good info
This book is a very comprehensive guide for the potential back yard chicken farmer or for a more serious chicken raiser. Read more
Published 5 months ago by D. L. Ritchey
3.0 out of 5 stars
Chicken book
I received this book with the understanding it was used and in good condition. The book was obviously used and from a library. Read more
Published 9 months ago by welderman
5.0 out of 5 stars
great information boof
If you are looking to get chickens and don't have alot of knowledge on the subject then this book will help. Read more
Published 18 months ago by tzglock
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good information
This isn't as compelling a read as, say, Debt of Honor or The Client, but it fills its purpose well: tells you how to raise chickens. Read more
Published 21 months ago by bucolucas
5.0 out of 5 stars
Chickens for chickens
Remember the old story of the kid writing a report on penguins? "I learned more about penguins than I ever wanted to know." That about sums up this book. Read more
Published on December 22, 2010 by Sue
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Resource!
I just got chickens (2 bantam silkie chicks and 2 full-grown Red Producers) a few weeks ago and this book has been an excellent resource! Read more
Published on October 20, 2010 by LootieWhistle
5.0 out of 5 stars
Storie's Guide to Raising Chickens
Great Book. It covers more than enough information to start raising your own chickens, It covers a lot more than I wanted to know, when I first read it. Read more
Published on August 16, 2010 by Craig
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- The Chicken Health Handbook by Gail Damerow on page 28, page 268, and Back Matter
- Greener Pastures on Your Side of the Fence (1991 publication) on page 56, and Back Matter
- A Chick Hatches by Joanna Cole on page 212, and Back Matter
- Prince Edward Island by Sherman Hines in Back Matter
- Your Pony, Your Horse by Cherry Hill in Back Matter
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