THE CHICKEN WHISPERER'S GUIDE TO KEEPING CHICKENS, REVISED

Subtitle Everything you need to know. . . and didn't know you needed to know about backyard and urban chickens

Andy Schneider
Price $19.99
Description Description
Your answer to the high price of eggs—keeping chickens—is also a fun way to reconnect with nature and your food sources. This is your down-to-earth, common-sense guide.

Ditch the super-technical manuals and discover the joys and benefits of a backyard flock, and how to keep it healthy and happy, with poultry personality Andy Schneider, aka the Chicken Whisperer. In this revised and expanded edition of The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens, Andy tells you everything you need to know about raising a backyard flock! This easygoing, comprehensive guide is a perfect fit for your busy lifestyle.

Inside, you’ll learn about:

  • The benefits of a backyard chicken flock
  • The art of incubation
  • Living with brooding hens
  • Setting up coops and runs
  • Proper poultry nutrition
  • Preventing and treating common illnesses and ailments

And that’s just for a start, so why not start your flock today?
Format:
Format Trade Paperback 184 Pages
ISBN:
ISBN 9781631593123
Size:
Size8.00 in x 9.00 in / 203.20 mm x 228.60 mm
Published:
Published Date July 15th, 2017
Andy Schneider

Andy Schneider, better known as the Chicken Whisperer, has become the go-to guy for anything chickens. Over the years, he has helped a countless number of people start their very own backyard flocks. He is not only a well-known radio personality, as host of the Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer radio show, but also the author of the books The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping ChickensChicken Fact or Chicken Poop, and The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Zero Waste Chicken Keeping and a contributor for Mother Earth NewsGrit magazine, and Farmers' Almanac. He is the national spokesperson for the USDA-APHIS Bio-Security for Birds Program and the Founder/Organizer of the Atlanta Backyard Poultry Meetup Group and many other Meetup Groups around the United States. He has been featured on CNN, HLN, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and NPR, as well as in The Wall Street JournalTime magazine, The EconomistUSA TodayNew Life Journal, and other local and national publications. Andy has also been traveling around the US on the Chicken Whisperer Tour, educating people about the many benefits of keeping a small backyard flock of chickens. Andy and his wife Jen keep 35 chickens on their property just north of Atlanta, Georgia. Visit him online at chickenwhisperer.com.

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