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Backyard Chickens
Chickens are no longer confined to the farm as more and more city dwellers and suburbanites are raising chickens in their backyards. If you're one of those self-sufficient minded folks who have decided to raise a flock in your yard, whether for your own convenient source of fresh, organic eggs and meat, or simply for the educational and entertainment value, we hope you'll find this information about raising backyard chickens a useful resource.
Backyard Chickens Ownership Guide
Everything you need to know about raising chickens.
DIY Chicken Coop Design & Construction
Tips and ideas for building your own coop.
Chicken Supplies & Accessories
Everything you need for your roosters, hens & chicks.
Chicken in the Kitchen: Recipes & Poultry Product Info
Chicken and egg recipes and health & safety info.
Books
There are literally thousands of books on the subject of chickens and raising them. We have collected and displayed here just a few very useful resources that will help you in raising and caring for your own backyard flock of chickens.
Living with Chickens: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Flock
Vermonter Jay Rossier draws on his own experiences and those of his fellow poultrymen in discussing how to keep marauders from the chicken coop, the benefits of homemade grain versus commercial, and how to live (and sleep) with a rooster in your midst. Personal anecdotes, interesting facts, and lush, full-color photographs of the birds and their landscape round out this comprehensive book.
Keep Chickens!: Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and other Small Spaces
Chickens are hot! Kilarski, a woman with a passion for poultry, offers a handbook that is as practical and encouraging as it is witty and entertaining. This book provides the detailed information every aspiring chicken keeper needs to know. 16-page color insert.
Raising Chickens Right
Whether you want to raise chickens during Spring and Summer for a supply of healthy and delicious roast chicken, just want farm fresh eggs on a regular basis, or you'd just like to keep a 'banty or two' as backyard birds (even on the back porch as pets), this ebook is for you.
How to Raise Chickens
A hands-on, easy-to-use guide to raising chickens in the backyard--from designing a coop to choosing breeds, caring for chicks, egging, sexing, and butchering.
Magazines
Backyard Poultry Magazine
Dedicated to increasing and improving small-flock poultry. Each issue contains informative articles on breed selection, housing, management, health and nutrition, rare and historic breeds, news and views, plus other topics of interest to promote the raising of small-scale poultry.
Practical Poultry
Practical Poultry has become the must-read magazine for the domestic poultry enthusiast. Each issue is packed with an exciting feature mix offering readers essential help and assistance on the broadest possible range of practical subjects. So, whether you’re looking for advice about buying birds, what’s best to feed or simply inspiration from other keepers, then you need look no further!
Home Grown Poultry
Home Grown Poultry Magazine is a gorgeous “how to” website that is all about raising, showing and marketing chickens, waterfowl, and exotic poultry. The magazine is dedicated to more and better small scale poultry raising including information on chickens, waterfowl, turkeys, guineas and more.