Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks
Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl
Published on 15. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-61212-014-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Workman Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 273 mm
Width: 214 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
788 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61212-014-0 (9781612120140)
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E-Book
04/2013
Storey Publishing, LLC
€9.99
Available for download
Person
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.
Content
Introduction
Part 1: The Chicks
1 Acquiring Your First Chicks
2 Setting Up Your Brooder
3 Managing Water, Feed, and Bedding
4 What to Expect as They Grow
5 Hatchling Health Issues
Part 2: The Eggs
6 The Broody Hen
7 Selecting an Incubator
8 Eggs for Hatching
9 Operating an Incubator
10 What Went Wrong?
11 Hatchling Identification
Appendix: Screwpot Notions
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Resources
Index
Interior Photography Credits