How To Raise Chickens: Everything You Need To Know, Updated & Revised Third Edition (Ffa)

How To Raise Chickens: Everything You Need To Know, Updated & Revised Third Edition (Ffa)

Whether you want to raise 5 chickens or 50, have a 40-foot city lot or a 40-acre farm, the expert advice in Future Farmers of America (FFA)-licensed?ow to Raise Chickens?akes it easy for young readers and beginners to get started raising a healthy flock. Whichever comes first for you, the chicken or the egg, this book shows what to do next with the help of longtime chicken breeder Christine Heinrichs, who explains?ll the helpful dos and important don'ts. Easy-to-follow advice helps readers:Choose breeds and obtain stockHouse and feed chickensManage your flock and keep it healthySelect and cull for breeding programsIncubate eggs and care for chicksRaise chickens in the country, suburbs, or cityHow to Raise Chickens provides information onbreed types,obtaining stock,housing,feeding,flock management,breeding programs,incubation and care of chicks,selection and culling,showing,health care, and thelegal aspects of raising chickens. Reviewed and approved by Dr. Clint Rusk (Purdue University Associate Professor in the Youth Development and Agriculture Education Department), this book will give you the tools you need to succeed in raising these challenging but rewarding animals. Beautifully designed and authoritatively written,How to Raise Chickens?s a trusted source of information to new chicken keepers of all ages, sure to inspire further investigation of the hobby.From the AuthorThis third edition bringsHow to Raise Chickens up to date for 2019. So many exciting things are happening for chickens! The first edition was published in 2007, before the local food movement was influencing our plates and chickens became the symbol of local agriculture.Backyard chickens have become the darling of urban and suburban flock keepers, who are learning about the important role of chickens in our food system and what we eat every day.This new edition features new information about research into chicken intelligence, and the way chicken raisers are finding new ways into the consumer and restaurant market. You don't have to raise your own to take advantage of heritage meat and eggs.But you want to -- that's why you're reading about this book. Go ahead -- learning about chickens is the first step to having your own flock.?rom the Inside FlapEverything you need to know: Breeds; Housing; Health and care; Hatching chicks; Eggs and meatAbout the AuthorGrowing up in New York's north Jersey suburbs, I knew nothing about chickens. When my daughter wanted baby chicks, I got some, and searched for a book about them. There wasn't one, so, being a writer, I wrote one.When Howto Raise Chickens was published in 2007, people were puzzled. "Is it a cookbook?" Today, every person I talk to is either raising chickens or knows someone who is. The change couldn't be more complete.How to Raise Poultry,comprising ducks, geese, turkeys, guineafowl and other domestically raised birds as well as chickens, was published in 2009, and a revised edition in 2014. Chickens became the mascot of the local food movement.?y B.S. is in journalism from the University of Oregon,making me a Fighting Duck. Perhaps that was fortuitous and foretold a future that included a lot of poultry!?he Backyard Field Guide to Chickens was published in 2016. The third edition ofHow to Raise Chickens was published in January 2019.My magazine articles appear regularly in publications ranging from Audubon and Backyard Poultry to Diversity in Action. I am a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Environmental Journalists, Northern California Science Writers Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors and Ten Spurs, the honorary society of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. I am a member of the American Poultry Association, where I serve on the Flock Inspection Committee, the American Bantam Association and the Livestock Conservancy. I'm a member of the