Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks

Gail Damerow

ISBN 10: 1612120148 / ISBN 13: 9781612120140

Editore: Workman Publishing, US, 2013

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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.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks
• Editore: Workman Publishing, US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1612120148
• ISBN 13: 9781612120140
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 780 grammi

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Riassunto

Chicken expert Gail Damerow teaches readers how to raise all types of poultry chicks, and also explains what it takes to go to the next level and hatch them at home.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.