Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide by Rick Luttmann, Gail Luttmann
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Book Reviews of Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide
Book Review: This is THE book to get started raising chickens.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the one book I found most helpful when I started raising my flock of laying hens. I can run to this book when I have a question or concern, and the information is usually there. Thanks to this book, I have not only raised many a hen from 2 day old chick, but hatched out my own broods in an incubator. This is the book I recommend when I am helping others get started raising hens, and they have had equal success. The majority of the book is information on how to care for your birds, rather than focusing on the butchering of chickens. The one (yes, only one) chapter on butchering is straight forward. It approaches the subject knowing the beginner butcher will be a bit squeemish and nervous, and takes that into account. Many other poultry books read like instruction manuals, but this book is written with humor and sensitivity. That is what makes it a great read, as well as an instructional one.Book Review: I'm heading to the feed store to buy my chicks...
Summary: 5 Stars
Just moved to a two-acre home in Alaska, and the dirt yard reminded me of the old folks -- and their chickens -- back home. Memories are great; it all seemed easy to a child back there. But could I really do it: Raise my own little flock in North Pole, Alaska, where it's dry dry dry and the temperatures can dip to -50 and stay there in the winter?The answer is yes, and thank goodness for this book and for those who reviewed it before me. I now have enough information to know how to talk to poultry folk in their lingo, what questions to ask, how to build a proper coop, which breeds are better for eggs and which for fryers, what to do about vermin and predators... In short, everything I needed to convince me that I can do it. And that I want to do it.
No wonder this book is a classic.
Got my biddy box ready... Goin' to the feed store.
Book Review: It Must Be One Of The Top 5 Beginners Chicken Books Around
Summary: 5 Stars
I didn't want to say it was the best, because there might be one out there I haven't read that might be better. But, if you have never had a chicken and want to start keeping these wonderful, generous birds then this is the book for you. It is easy to read because the style is personable and humorous. You feel like you're just sitting on the back porch with a friend, talking about chickens. There is information on feed, chicken health, dogs and other predators, how to build coops and hen houses, how light affect egg laying-you name it. There is a chapter on chickens for meat also. I got this book back when I was just fantasizing about having chickens, long before I was given my first pullet. It has been an invaluable aid. I loaned the book to my daughter, and as of this writing, haven't gotten it back yet....Book Review: #1 book on chickens
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first book on chickens we ever bought. It was after seeing the late actor Jimmy Stewart on the old Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and hearing him talk about the small flock of laying hens he had at his place in the heart of Beverly Hills that we checked the local zoning laws where we lived at the time and found we to could have hens. And then we got involved in 4 H with our son and they in turn recommended this book.It is by far the BEST book for anyone who has a small piece of property and zoning laws that permit keeping chickens. It discusses everything you need to know from the simply housing they need, the feed and water issues and how not to upset the neighbors.
So if you are interested in having a small flock get the book and get informed before you get the chickens.
Book Review: "Chickens in your Backyard"
Summary: 5 Stars
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.