Getting Started With Your Working Chicken
This short, sweet, and self-sufficient guide shows beginners how to keep chickens as part of a rural or urban homestead. Learn everything you need to know to get started on your poultry adventure, with quick answers to frequently asked questions like:
What kind of chickens should I get?
Which color eggs are best?
How many chickens should I get?
Should I add a rooster to my flock?
Where should I get my chickens?
She's so cute! Can I name her?
When should I kill my chickens?
What infrastructure do I need to make my chickens happy?
What should I feed my chickens?
Should my chickens have a tractor, a coop, or be free range?
How much space do my chickens need?
How do I manage my working flock?
What is the chicken's place in the farm ecosystem?
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About the Author
Anna Hess is a homesteader, writer, and blogger whose first paperback, The Weekend Homesteader, helped thousands of homesteaders-to-be find ways to fit their dreams into the hours leftover from a full-time job. Her complete works include:
Homesteading:
The Weekend Homesteader
Trailersteading
Growing into a Farm
Microbusiness Independence
Low-Cost Sunroom
$10 Root Cellar
Gardening:
Homegrown Humus
Bug-Free Organic Gardening (formerly titled "The Naturally Bug-Free Garden")
The Ultimate Guide to Soil (also available as four smaller ebooks as "Personality Tests for Your Soil," "Small-Scale No-Till Gardening Basics," "Balancing Soil Nutrients and Acidity," and "Soil Amendments for the Organic Garden")
Chickens:
Getting Started With Your Working Chicken (FREE ebook!)
Incubation Handbook