Take the guesswork out of raising your own healthy chickens and discover how to produce your own organic eggs and poultry right in your own backyard with this comprehensive guide!

If you've always wanted to get started raising your own chickens naturally and provide fresh, organic poultry products for yourself, your family or even sell for profit but have no idea how to get started and are looking for a guide that will take you through the process of setting up your first or next chicken coop, then this book is for you.

Unlike other books on the topic of raising chickens, this definitive guide takes you by the hand and leaves nothing to your imagination on setting up your poultry. From housing your chickens to preparing the perfect chicken diet, this step-by-step, illustrated guide has everything you need to achieve the results you want.

Here's a small preview of what you're going to learn in Backyard Chickens:

• Everything you need to know before raising chickens, from government regulations and biosecurity
• A crash guide to housing your poultry, from minimum space requirements and flooring to temperature and security
• All you need to know about poultry feeds and how to select the right diet for your chickens depending on the age, species and the end-use of your birds
• 6 proven poultry techniques to help you maximize the egg-laying ability of your poultry
• 21 surefire ways to keep your chicks safe and secure in a coop and protect them from predators
• Where to acquire strong healthy chicks that will grow into productive hens for your coop
• ...and tons more!

Even if you're completely new to raising chickens, or you're experienced with homesteading and are looking to pick up new chicken raising tricks that will help you improve your poultry yield, this complete guide will help you start your flock, whether for eggs, meat, fun or profit.

FAQs

I don't have a large backyard. Will this work for me?

Of course! Almost everything in this guide is designed for small-scale poulterers, from the coop dimensions to the materials used, so you should feel right at home using the directions in this guide!

I don't have a large budget. Is this book suitable for me?

Absolutely positive! In fact, the whole point of the book is to help you inexpensively set up your own poultry right in your backyard and take your nutrition into your hands. You don't need to invest thousands of dollars or burn a large hole in your pocket.