Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens from Hatching to Laying

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Jenna Woginrich, "Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens from Hatching to Laying"
2011 | ISBN: 1603425845 | MOBI | 128 pages | 2,6 MB
Chickens are the hottest new backyard “pet”! It seems that every Tom,
Dick, and Susan wants to raise chickens in his or her backyard, whether
that yard is one square foot or one hundred. There’s nothing more local
than an egg freshly laid right in your own yard. But what should you
expect when you’re adopting a couple of day-old chicks? In Chick Days,
Jenna Woginrich, award-winning author of Made from Scratch, the
homesteading memoir for the twenty-something generation, offers a highly
entertaining and informative photographic guide for today’s fledgling
chick parent. Fun for the complete newbie and for families with young
children, Chick Days chronicles the journey of three chickens from newly
hatched fluffy butterballs to grown hens laying eggs. Day by day and
week by week, readers watch the three starring chickens grow and change,
learning about chicken behavior, feeding requirements, housing,
hygiene, and health-care essentials, and fun facts on all things
poultry. As Jenna herself says, “Chickens are more than 12-piece
buckets, country diner kitsch, and egg whites. They’re your backyard
ambassadors to healthier eating and basic husbandry. Keeping chickens is
a crash course in local eating. When you start collecting eggs you’ll
be eating so local you’ll know the amount of cracked corn in the feeder
at ground zero of your breakfast . . . ”
Jenna’s witty commentary is accompanied by the photography of Mars
Vilaubi, who raised the three chickens himself, along with his wife and
son. Their accompanying “chick diary” notes particular things this
family learned and did along the way to make chicken raising fun.
Presenting just the essential information in a highly visual and
inviting format, Chick Days makes every stage of chicken life fun,
entertaining, and, most of all, doable. It’s sure to give any chicken
lover or wannabe owner the confidence and enthusiasm to join the flock!



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