Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens from Hatching to Laying - Softcover

Woginrich, Jenna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603425845 ISBN 13: 9781603425841

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 2011

Synopsis

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. 
 

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Chickens 1-2-3

Essential information -- from keeping your new chicks warm to collecting still-warm eggs.

Chickens are quirky and fun and their eggs give you tasty, nutritious food every day. Who could ask more of a pet? And it's surprisingly easy to be a backyard chicken-keeper. With lively text and charming photographs, Chick Days follows the day-by-day and week-by-week growth of three chickens as they develop from hatchlings to laying hens. Firsthand advice on chicken behavior, breed selection, feeding requirements, safe housing, hygiene, and health-care essentials ensures that your own flock will be as healthy and well-cared-for as this contented trio.

A visual diary from day 1 to month 6.

About the Author:

Jenna Woginrich is a homesteader and the author of Barnheart, Chick Days, and Made from Scratch. She blogs at Cold Antler Farm, as well as Mother Earth News and The Huffington Post. A Pennsylvania native, she has made her home in the mountains of Tennessee, in northern Idaho, in rural Vermont, and most recently in upstate New York, where she lives with a flock of Scottish Blackface sheep, a border collie in training, chickens and geese, a hive of bees, a horse, and several amiable rabbits.

Photographer Mars Vilaubi chronicled the adventures of his three backyard hens from their first days out of the egg through their first days laying eggs in Chick Days. He lives in western Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1603425845
• ISBN 13: 9781603425841
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128