The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens: Everything You Need to Know... and Didn't Know You Need to Know About Backyard and Urban Chicken
Author(s): Andy Schneider; Brigid McCrea (As told to)
The down-to-earth, common-sense advice in The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens, Expanded & Revised is perfect for people looking to get started keeping backyard poultry.
Since The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens was first published in 2011, tens of thousands of people have discovered the joys and benefits of a backyard flock. Now Andy Schneider is back with The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens, Expanded & Revised.
Are you looking for a great way to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources? Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to start making this happen, even with limited space in your backyard. Let the Chicken Whisperer (poultry personality Andy Schneider) teach you everything he knows and everything you need to know about raising a backyard flock
Ditch the super-technical manuals. Andy's common-sense perspective in The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens, Expanded & Revised. This fun, comprehensive guide is a perfect fit for your busy lifestyle.
Inside, you'll learn:
- The benefits of a backyard chicken flock
- The art of incubation
- Living with brooding hens
- Setting up coops and runs
- Proper poultry nutrition
- Understanding your chickens' health, and wellness
And that's just for a start, so why not start your flock today?
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Andy Schneider, better known as the Chicken Whisperer, has become the go-to guy for anything chickens. Over the years, he has helped a countless number of people start their very own backyard flocks. He is not only a well-known radio personality, as host of the "Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer" radio show, but also a contributor for Mother Earth News, Grit Magazine, and Farmers' Almanac. He is the national spokesperson for the USDA-APHIS Bio-Security for Birds Program. He is the Founder/Organizer of the Atlanta Backyard Poultry Meetup Group and many other Meetup Groups around the United States. He has been featured on CNN, HLN, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, as well as in The Wall Street Journal,Time Magazine, The Economist, USA Today, New Life Journal, and other local and national publications. Andy has also been traveling around the U.S. on the Chicken Whisperer Tour, educating people about the many benefits of keeping a small backyard flock of chickens. Andy and his wife Jen keep 35 chickens on their property just north of Atlanta, Georgia. Visit him online at http://www.chickenwhisperer.com.
General Fields
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- : Quarto Publishing Group USA
- : Quarry Books
- : 0.607814
- : 01 July 2017
- : 228mm X 203mm
- : United States
- : 01 June 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Andy Schneider; Brigid McCrea (As told to)
- : Paperback
- : 2
- : English
- : 636.5
- : 184