Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gail Damerow
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 276,Width 216
Category/GenreSustainability
Animal husbandry
Poultry farming
Self-sufficiency
ISBN/Barcode 9781612120140
ClassificationsDewey:636.5
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Storey Publishing LLC
Imprint Storey Publishing LLC
Publication Date 15 January 2013
Publication Country United States

Description

Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you'll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.

Author Biography

Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including What's Killing My Chickens? and the best-selling Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.

Reviews

"This know-all chicken manual could serve as a college textbook" "Background information, illustrations, and thorough instructions abound throughout this thoughtfully organized work. In addition to sections devoted to the selection, care, feeding, and development of eggs and chicks, this guide features a glossary and a comprehensive index. ... for those seeking reliable instructions on brooding and hatching a variety of fowl, the book is outstanding." "Gail Damerow continues to educate, entertain, and astound us with her detailed coverage of all-things-chicken, this time with seldom-encountered facts and tips on hatching and brooding. ... Add this one to the already long list of Gail Damerow books that belong in every poultry lover's library."