Backyard Chickens: A Comprehensive Guide to Raising Chickens for Beginners, Including Tips on Choosing a Breed and Building the Coop (Backyard Farming)

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Are you looking for a simple guide to raising backyard chickens?

Do you want simple and effective tips for finding the right breeds for your backyard flock?

If your answer is yes then this book, Backyard Chickens, is just what you have been looking for.

This is a beginner-friendly guide that will take you through the basics of raising chickens, including:

• Things to consider before getting chickens
• Where to buy your chickens
• What breeds are best for different purposes

It has handy tips on what to look for when buying chicks for your backyard.

There is plenty of information on how to identify healthy birds to ensure that you only buy the best stock for your backyard.

Backyard Chickens goes into all the little details that will help make your backyard flock a success.

This book will guide you on how to set up your backyard in readiness for your flock, as well as picking the best location in your backyard for a chicken coop.

If you have no idea where to start when it comes to building a coop, you will be provided with a step by step process to use when building a simple backyard coop.

There is also additional information on:

• How much space you will need for your chickens
• Local ordinances and laws on keeping backyard chickens
• And how much it will cost you to keep and maintain them

We demystify the various types of chicken feed and give you all the information you need regarding the best feed to give your chickens, when to feed them, how to feed them, and even how often you should do it.

For the beginner who wants to keep chickens for a specific purpose, no need to fret, this book will take you through:

• How to feed and take care of chicks and pullets
• How to feed and take care of layers
• How to feed and take care of broilers
• Plus, all the details you need to know when it comes to best practices in feeding

A significant part of this book is dedicated to guiding you on maintenance and caring for your chickens.

There are handy tools for helping your birds cope with adverse conditions, what to do during winter, and how you can get your egg-layers to be more productive.

There are plenty of tips on hygiene, keeping chicken coops clean, and how to spot signs of ill health in your chickens.

All this information is packaged together with handy DIY tips.

This book has an entire section that is dedicated to common poultry diseases that affect backyard chickens and how to treat these conditions.

If you want to raise chickens and have no idea where to start, Backyard Chickens is the ultimate beginner's guide.

This book is a practical guide that is meant to equip you in starting your backyard chicken hobby, maintaining happy and healthy chickens, and getting the best production out of your chickens.

Get this guide now to get started with your new backyard adventure