The Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens: Simple Steps for Healthy, Happy Hens - Softcover

Shea Mormino, Kathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760352429 ISBN 13: 9780760352427

Publisher: Voyageur Press, 2017

Synopsis

Keep your chickens healthy and their abundant supply of free eggs flowing with this gorgeously illustrated, no-nonsense guide for backyard chickeneers.

Whether you’re thinking about keeping chickens in the face of high egg prices or are seeking health advice for your existing flock, The Chicken Chick’s Guide to Backyard Chickens covers everything you need to know, including coops, chick care, breed selection, chicken health, and beyond.

Internationally known as The Chicken Chick, Kathy Shea Mormino brings an informative style and fresh perspective on raising backyard chickens to millions of fans around the world. Kathy is the founder and one-woman creative force behind her wildly popular and award-winning blog, The-Chicken-Chick.com. Sharing her years of hard-earned experience and collaborations with poultry veterinarians, nutritionists, and professors, she provides simple steps to care for these fun-loving pets with confidence, covering:

• Breed selection
• Caring for chicks
• Housing essentials
• Food and water
• Egg production
• Simple steps for healthy hens
• Treating injured and sick chickens
• Managing the risk of predators and pests

With this friendly, photo-rich book as your guide, experience the emotional benefits of chicken companionship and enjoy fresh eggs from your lovingly raised hens.

About this title

About the Author

Kathy Shea Mormino's background as a litigation attorney combined with the street-cred she has garnered from sharing personal chickening successes, failures and gaffes in real-time online makes her a relatable, trustworthy advisor readers depend on to deliver the straight dope on all things related to backyard chicken keeping. Having spent years in litigation publicly fighting politicians for the right to keep backyard chickens, Mormino has consistently put her money where her mouth is, educating lawmakers and changing zoning regulations proving that animal welfare and the right to keep chickens responsibly is foremost on her agenda. 

In addition to being a brand ambassador for Tractor Supply Company, Purina Poultry, Standlee Premium Western Forage, Vetericyn, and Sloggers, she is a contributor to Hobby Farms Chickens magazine, as well as online blogs by Mother Earth News and Grit magazines. Kathy has become the trusted voice in backyard chicken-keeping, frequently sought out by media outlets and publications, including The Wall Street Journal, LA Times, and Associated Press, for her perspective on chickens She appears on local and national television, radio, and podcasts, and is featured on Discovery's Destination America reality show Coop Dreams, as well as P. Allen Smith's Garden Home.

Kathy lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughters Sophia and MaryKate where she is a beekeeper, the personal assistant to 50+ chickens, tens of thousands of honey bees, a Netherland Dwarf bunny, and a Yorkie with cattitude. 

- She's keeping it real . . . with chickens.

From the Inside Flap

Several generations removed from growing their own food, families consciously seeking fresh, local eggs from humanely raised hens are flocking back to resuscitate the wilted roots of self-reliance planted by their forebearers. Most of those venturing into modern-day chickening do so sans family mentors or local Sherpas to guide the way, unaware of the pitfalls that the "how hard could it be?" mentality forebodes. Moreover, few are prepared for the shocking realization that these unique, food-producing animals quickly become beloved family pets with specific management and medical needs that the veterinary community is largely untrained to meet.

Internationally known as The Chicken Chick, Kathy Shea Mormino brings an informative style and fresh perspective on raising backyard chickens to millions of fans around the world. An attorney by profession, Kathy is the founder and one-woman creative force behind the wildly popular and award-winning Facebook page and blog, The Chicken Chick. With the friendly approachability of the smart girl next door, Kathy's engaging, irreverent style makes chicken keeping accessible regardless of experience level, and intriguing (if not enviable) to those without chickens.

Now her practical, down-to-earth approach to chicken keeping is available in this book. Sharing her years of hard-earned experience and collaborations with poultry veterinarians, nutritionists, and professors, she provides simple steps to care for these uncommon pets with confidence. Kathy's personality permeates the book as she guides newbie, veteran, and would-be backyard chickeneers through all aspects of small flock care- from getting into the hobby to housing, feeding, egg production, health, and much more. The result is accurate information presented in the fun and abundantly illustrated format that Kathy has delivered on her blog for years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Voyageur Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0760352429
• ISBN 13: 9780760352427
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180