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Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide | 
 enlarge | Authors: Rick Luttmann, Gail Luttmann
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $7.16
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 9869
Media: Paperback
Pages: 157
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0878571256
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.5
EAN: 9780878571253
ASIN: 0878571256
Publication Date: September 15, 1976
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand new item. Over 4 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Few left in stock - order soon. Code: R20081201173332L
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Product Description
Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you've ever tasted. The answer is chickens--endearing birds that require but a modest outlay of time, space and food.
As they learned to raise chickens, Gail and Rick Luttmann came to realize the need for a comprehensive but clear and nontechnical guide. Their book covers all the basics in a light and entertaining sytle, from housing and feeding through incubating, bringing up chicks, butchering, and raising chickens for show.
Througout the book, the Luttmanns express their wonder at the personalities of chickens--the role of brash protector played by roosters, and the instinctive motherliness of the hens. Given some freedom and attention, these birds can become much more than the egg-and-meat machines of commercial hatcheries and broiler factories. Chickens provide backyard farmers with enjoyable pastime, as well as a supply of good food.
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 Chickens in Your Backyard November 25, 2008
Joyce L. Vaughan (Georgia)
This was a really good book. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to know how to raise a small flock for fun or profit. The book helped us enormously! The seller shipped it promptly and securely. I recommond not only this book but also buying from this seller.
 Quick Read of Book October 13, 2008
Francisco Green (Dayton, OH)
Chickens in your backyard is a good over all starter book. It would have been a little better if it specified dimensions for coup and nesting areas.
easy read and informative September 17, 2008
K. Yu (San Jose, CA)
good book for beginner and explains things in an entertaining way. Definitely an easy read while on bus/train
"Chickens in your Backyard" January 1, 2008
Rosemarie (New Jersey)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide
This summer I decided to adopt a few chickens to keep for eggs. A city girl in reality but a farm girl in my heart, this brought a few challenges. What to do and where to buy. I found where to buy but now what to do? I purchased Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide. It arrived in a timely manner and I began to read. Well it worked. I now have a small flock of 6 beauties, no eggs yet but this book told me why. When I have any problems, all small, I refer to this book for the answers.
I am patiently waiting my first fresh eggs, and with the help of this book they will be fresh and delicious.
practical September 21, 2007
Brad (California)
Good, practical information on a number of subjects related to raising chickens and problems one might encounter.
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