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Chargement... Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens from Hatching to Layingpar Jenna Woginrich
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Sweet, funny and full of great details, without overwhelming this absolute beginner. I am ready for those backyard chickens! ( ) OK, darn cute. I've owned chickens for 20 years, so don't really need a Chicken 101 book... but with the big move toward Urban Farming & Community Gardens, I thought I should brush up, so as to answer questions, if posed. (All the farm/garden questions seem to land on me at our library!) Darn cute. I'll probably buy a copy just on that. Author Jenna Woginrich has "found" chickens, they're pets, entertainment, a source of delicious protein - via their eggs - and she tells it all with a storyboard flow that comes from her Graphic Artist background. Almost 'Zine-ish. If you know anyone interested in homesteading, recommend it! I do not have backyard chickens... yet. I loved the way this book takes us through the lives of 3 chickens, from chicks to laying hens. The overall structure is somewhat like a diary, with excellent pictures and various interesting and informative side notes interspersed throughout. It's a great book to browse, as well as read straight through, especially when one is contemplating chickens of one's own. I really liked the section suggesting the top 10 breeds for newbie chicken owners, and what to expect from each one- including notes on the birds' general temperament, and which breeds may or may not work well with other breeds. In addition, there's an excellent chart at the back of the book with a terser run-down of many breeds indeed- including the egg colors. I will mention, though, that it is NOT a comprehensive book. You will need at least 1 other one. For example, coops and nesting boxes are not discussed in detail, though there's a list of resources in the back from which one can learn more, and this is typical. This is not a complaint! The book does what it's trying to do attractively, informatively, and with lots of humor- but I'd get a more thorough manual as well before I ordered my first chicks. I really enjoyed this book! Recommended for people who either do not yet have a backyard mini-flock, or ones just starting out. Comment aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Chickens are the hottest new backyard ?pet?! It seems that every Tom, Dick, and Susan wants to raise chickens in his or her backyard, whether that yard is one square foot or one hundred. There?s nothing more local than an egg freshly laid right in your own yard. But what should you expect when you?re adopting a couple of day-old chicks? In Chick Days, Jenna Woginrich, award-winning author of Made from Scratch, the homesteading memoir for the twenty-something generation, offers a highly entertaining and informative photographic guide for today?s fledgling chick parent. Fun for the complete newbie and for families with young children, Chick Days chronicles the journey of three chickens from newly hatched fluffy butterballs to grown hens laying eggs. Day by day and week by week, readers watch the three starring chickens grow and change, learning about chicken behavior, feeding requirements, housing, hygiene, and health-care essentials, and fun facts on all things poultry. As Jenna herself says, ?Chickens are more than 12-piece buckets, country diner kitsch, and egg whites. They?re your backyard ambassadors to healthier eating and basic husbandry. Keeping chickens is a crash course in local eating. When you start collecting eggs you?ll be eating so local you?ll know the amount of cracked corn in the feeder at ground zero of your breakfast . . . ? Jenna?s witty commentary is accompanied by the photography of Mars Vilaubi, who raised the three chickens himself, along with his wife and son. Their accompanying ?chick diary? notes particular things this family learned and did along the way to make chicken raising fun. Presenting just the essential information in a highly visual and inviting format, Chick Days makes every stage of chicken life fun, entertaining, and, most of all, doable. It?s sure to give any chicken lover or wannabe owner the confidence and enthusiasm to join the flock!. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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