"Over 60 detailed profiles ; Glossary, classification table & resource list ; Fascinating 8,000-year history"--Cover.
Tracing chicken history, this handy pocket-sized field guide provides information on sixty-one chicken breeds. Suitable for amateur enthusiasts as well as longtime chicken breeders, it includes a glossary, resources, and chapters describing the chicken's history, behavior, eggs …
Woginrich, award-winning author of "Made from Scratch," offers a highly entertaining and informative photographic guide for today's beginning chicken farmer. "Chick Days" chronicles the journey of three chickens from newly hatched chicks to grown hens laying eggs.
It's surprisingly easy to be a backyard chicken-keeper. Follow the day-by-day and week-by-week growth of three chickens as they develop from hatchlings to laying hens. Your own flock can be as healthy and well-cared-for as this contented trio.
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 y…