Raising chickens for dummies
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'l...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, N.J.:
Wiley
c2020.
Hoboken, New Jersey : [2020] |
| Edition: | Second edition |
| Series: | --For dummies.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630873306719 |
Table of Contents:
- The joy of chickens
- Basic chicken biology and behavior
- A chicken isn't just a chicken : your guide to breeds
- Buying chickens
- Choosing your housing type
- Designing and constructing a coop
- Coop, sweet coop : furnishing and housekeeping
- Feeding your flock
- Controlling pests and predators
- Keeping your flock happy and healthy
- Handling health problems
- Mating your chickens
- Incubating eggs and hatching chicks
- Raising chicks
- Managing layers and collecting eggs
- Raising and butchering meat birds
- More than ten tips for keeping healthy, stress-free chickens
- More than ten misconceptions about chickens, eggs, and so on.
