Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks
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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.
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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
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