BOOK DESCRIPTION

A Companion edition to Hobby Farm, Chickens helps hobby farmers become more knowledgeable about their poultry and better appreciate the bountiful gifts they bestow. This essential guide directs both new and experienced chicken keeps through the nuances of tending a small-scale flock—for pleasure and profit. Readers will discover how to select and purchase the right breed, construct predator-proof fencing and housing, keep their poultry healthy with a nutritious diet, raise healthy chicks—with or without a hen, spot symptoms of common poultry diseases, and much more!

About the author:

Sue Weaver is a contributing editor of Hobby Farms^® magazine. Sue maintains a flock of chicks that includes Barred Rock Cochins, a Silver-Laced Wyandotte, a larger brown Cochin, a ed Jungle Fowl, and an assortment of barnies. She also breeds Keyrrey-Shee miniature sheet, American Curly horses, and AMHR miniature horses of the cob type. Sue lives in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas.