This book covers topics such as:
Why raise chickens?
Before you begin…
Regulations
Diseases and other maladies
Buying laying hens, chicks or hatching the eggs yourself
Pecking order
What type of chickens?
White eggs, brown eggs, or colored eggs?
Brown eggs
White eggs
Colored eggs (Blue/Green)
Full sized birds or bantams?
Egg production
Broodiness
Hardiness
Confinement
Egg layers
Meat birds
Setting up your brooder
Heat lamp
Box/brooder
Litter
Feeding and watering
Chicks
Pasting up
and much more!
Links to other resources such as PDFs from Universities, charts and pictures, coop designs, and more, are presented throughout the book.
