How to Raise Chickens for Eggs
From picking the breed to the eggs you can’t eat fast enough: a beginner’s guide in thirteen chapters, in the order the jobs come up.
97 pages · 13 chapters · PDF
Which breed, how big a coop, what goes in the feeder, why the eggs stopped, what to do with the extra ones. That’s most of what a first flock asks of you.
This book takes those jobs one at a time, in the order you meet them.
It’s written for beginners. If you’ve kept hens for years, most of it will be old news.
A beginner’s guide to a first laying flock, in the order the jobs come up: the breed, the coop, the feeder and the water, how the flock behaves, what goes wrong, and what to do with the eggs.
This is for you if…
- you are starting your first laying flock and want the jobs in order
- your hens have stopped laying and you want a list of things to check
- you want the breed, the coop, the feed and the common problems in one plain guide
Probably not, if…
- you have kept a flock for years
- you need a vet’s manual on poultry disease
What’s inside
- Introduction: Benefits and Common Misconceptions
- Choosing the Right Breed of Chicken
- Setting Up Your Coop
- Feeding and Watering Your Chickens
- Understanding Chicken Behavior
- Collecting and Storing Eggs
- Troubleshooting Common Problems
- Breeding Your Chickens
- Using Chicken Manure as Fertilizer
- Integrating Chickens with Other Livestock
- Selling Eggs for Profit
- Cooking with Fresh Eggs
- Encouragement to Start or Continue
Breed, coop and feed are one decision, not three.
They look like three separate trips to the feed store, but they lean on each other. In the book’s troubleshooting chapter, crowding is one cause of feather-pecking, and too little calcium is one cause of soft shells. So a problem in the run can start back at the coop or the feeder.
That’s why it runs in order. Pick the bird, then the coop. Get the feed and water right, learn how the flock behaves, and only then deal with what goes wrong. If your hens have already stopped laying, I’d jump to chapter 7 first and come back.
Thirteen chapters in all, and the back half goes past the basics. There’s breeding, right through to the hatch (about 21 days), and manure for the garden once it’s aged at least 6 months. Then keeping hens with goats, sheep or cows, selling eggs, and cooking with the extras.
What You’ll Discover Inside
📖 A look at the contents
Two of the three contents pages, straight from the PDF.
Get the Eggs. And the Reasons Behind Them.
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