Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks
Author: Gail Damerow
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1612120148

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.

Chick Days

Chick Days
Author: Jenna Woginrich
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2011-01-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1603425845

Jenna Woginrich chronicles the life journey of three chickens (Amelia, Honey, and Tilda) from fluffy, newly hatched bundles to grown hens laying eggs of their own. As you watch these chickens grow, you’ll learn everything you need to know about chicken behavior, feeding, housing, and health care. This playfully informative guide will inspire you to confidently raise your own feathered flock.

The Chicken Encyclopedia

The Chicken Encyclopedia
Author: Gail Damerow
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-01-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1603425616

From addled to wind egg and crossed beak to zygote, the terminology of everything chicken is demystified in The Chicken Encyclopedia. Complete with breed descriptions, common medical concerns, and plenty of chicken trivia, this illustrated A-to-Z reference guide is both informative and entertaining. Covering tail types, breeding, molting, communication, and much more, Gail Damerow provides answers to all of your chicken questions and quandaries. Even seasoned chicken farmers are sure to discover new information about the multifaceted world of these fascinating birds.

Chicks, Hatching and Rearing; A Manual of Dependable Instruction in Incubating, Brooding, Feeding ..

Chicks, Hatching and Rearing; A Manual of Dependable Instruction in Incubating, Brooding, Feeding ..
Author: Harold Alvah Nourse
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2015-08-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781298758026

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Incubation

Incubation
Author: Katie Thear
Publisher: Broad Leys Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Chickens
ISBN: 9780906137253

Success with Baby Chicks

Success with Baby Chicks
Author: Robert Plamondon
Publisher: Norton Creek Classics
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2003
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 9780972177009

Describes how to raise baby chicks using brooder-house techniques that, though now largely forgotten, were once used on millions of American farms.