Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl

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Gail Damerow

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl

Gail Damerow

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Storey Publishing LLC
15 January 2013

Poultry farming

Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you ll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.

By: Gail Damerow
Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 274mm, Width: 214mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 780g
ISBN: 9781612120140
ISBN 10: 1612120148
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 January 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including What s Killing My Chickens? and the best-selling Storey s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.

Reviews for Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl

Background information, illustrations, and thorough instructions abound throughout this thoughtfully organized work. In addition to sections devoted to the selection, care, feeding, and development of eggs and chicks, this guide features a glossary and a comprehensive index. for those seeking reliable instructions on brooding and hatching a variety of fowl, the book is outstanding. </p>