Success With Baby Chicks: A Complete Guide to Hatchery Selection, Mail-Order Chicks, Day-Old Chick Care, Brooding, Brooder Plans, Feeding, and Housing (Paperback)

by Robert Plamondon (Author) "Raising baby chicks can be a delightful experience if things go well, but it can be discouraging and even heartbreaking if things go wrong..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review
Anyone serious about raising chicks should add this book to their personal library, as an investment well worth it. -- APPPA Grit Magazine, Spring 2003

Everything about raising baby chicks you thought never even existed is now in a 155-page book. -- Capital Press, May 16, 2003

Product Description

In Success With Baby Chicks, I cover everything you need to know about raising chicks through the brooding period (starting with day-old chicks and ending when they no longer need extra heat), with an emphasis on clear, upbeat, practical advice. The book includes many "Lost Secrets of the Poultry Masters": pieces of advice that were once widely publicized but have been largely forgotten.

No aspect of chicken keeping is as crucial as the brooding period. You can't be successful with chickens unless you raise happy, healthy baby chicks. Everyone knows this is true, but no one else gives it the attention it deserves! You won't get this information anywhere else.

I devote entire chapters to subjects that are normally dismissed in a paragraph or two, such as litter or waterers. Overhead infrared lamp brooding has a chapter to itself. Cold-weather brooding is discussed in detail. I do it because these things are important. Skimping on detail, which is what most books do, leaves the reader in the dark, and the chicks suffer.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 155 pages
• Publisher: Norton Creek Press (March 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972177000
• ISBN-13: 978-0972177009
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #75,503 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on brooding chicks, March 21, 2003

By	Kip Glass (Bois D'Arc, Mo.) - See all my reviews

It's about time someone compiled a book on how to brood chickens properly. Robert took his many years of experience and knowledge, and also his old library of out of print books and compiled a very detailed yet concise book that will help you have the greatest success or improve your past success to a higher level. I would recommend this book to anyone who is brooding chicks in numbers from 10 to 100,000. Thanks Robert for putting together this information.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Fowl Language and a Clucking Good Read, March 20, 2003

By	M. G. Forbes (Corvallis, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you've ever considered raising chickens for hobby or profit,
this is the book you MUST HAVE. Plamondon's prose is eminently
readable, and his advice is spot on target. Drawing from ancient
sources as well as modern, he's produced a definitive guide to
the care and raising of chickens for eggs or meat.

Not some ivory-tower academic, Plamondon provides detailed
guidance to methods of poultry production, using materials and
equipment commonly available to anyone on a budget. You'll make
back the price of this book in just your first brood or two, in
reduced chick mortality alone.

Buy this book. It's good advice from a working farmer who knows
his stuff, and has the writing skills to communicate well.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It doesn't get any clearer than this!, March 21, 2003

By	Debra Blake (the Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews

Robert Plamondon has packed more great information about chick brooding into this book than can be found in any other current "how to" poultry book. The author combines his own chick brooding experiences with still valuable material from out-of-print poultry books, and shows the reader how to apply it using new technology. It is well illustrated with both old and new photos. This book is a must have if you want to raise chicks. I wish it had been available when I first started, but I have it now!