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Living with Chickens: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Flock

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Author: Jay Rossier
Creators: Geoff Hansen, American Poultry Association
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7

ISBN: 1592280137
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.5
EAN: 9781592280131
ASIN: 1592280137

Publication Date: March 1, 2004
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description

Chickens-why not? Tens of thousands of people in all areas of the country enjoy raising these birds, whether for food or companionship. You can, too, with this indispensable guide. Then again, you may want to read Living With Chickens just for the sheer joy of it.
Straightforward prose and dozens of clear, detailed illustrations gives any future chicken farmer the tools he needs to get started, from step-by-step instructions on building the coop to a brief background on chicken biology ("gizzard talk"); from hints on getting high-quality eggs from the hens, to methods for butchering. Vermonter Jay Rossier draws on his own experiences and those of his fellow poultrymen in discussing how to keep marauders from the chicken coop, the benefits of homemade grain versus commercial, and how to live (and sleep) with a rooster in your midst. Personal anecdotes, interesting facts, and lush, full-color photographs of the birds and their landscape round out this comprehensive book.

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An indispensable resource October 19, 2009
Ethan Stern (Meredith, NH USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I bought this book based on a number of good reviews and was not disappointed. It's a great primer or source of additional information for anyone with a backyard flock. I have read through a number of feed store poultry management books and another title, Raising Poultry the Modern Way. I found Living with Chickens to be far easier reading and significantly more useful as Rossier dispatches with traditional, industrially-based farming methods and presents a slightly more natural, enlightend approach to chicken care.

2 out of 5 stars

This book is not for Children! August 31, 2009
Great Cook (Santa Monica, California)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I'm not as impressed with this book as most of the reviewers are!

But I do have to say, the pictures are in color,(which I like), big, and very nice photogrophy (most of them!). There is also info on chicken coops , and your basic raising of regular chickens.
There is only info here about feeding your chickens regular food.

I was looking for a book that also told about feeding your birds healther food, so the eggs would be healthier. I was interested in the eggs, not watching how to kill chickens.I also was not planning on killing my birds, but I gress that comes with chicken books!!
I do know if you feed your chickens ground up flax seed, along with there food, your eggs yokes will have Omega-3 in them. (proven fact) Also let them be free range during the day.

That said, I thought it was disgusting when it came to how she kills her chickens, and the
picture of the chicken being held down with a broom handle over its neck,chocking it to death,while she is standing on the broom, till she cuts its artery, But the chicken is still not dead!.

Then she shows how to put the chicken in a Killing Cone, that allows just its head and neck sticking out the small end (not a bad idea, but).
"The killing cone helps to prevent the bruising that can occur when the bird Flaps and Struggles while it bleeds out" Which says to me. That chicken that was your Pet, is now in pain and struggling in pain till its death!
Also the cone will keep the blood from splattering on you!!!..
I'm not a farmer, this made me sick! I live on a few acres with animals, but we do not kill them..

I do eat chicken (not much. after this book, maybe not at all), but if anyone thinks this is a great picture book for little kids, I do not know where your coming from, Or what your thinking!!

I gave this book two stars for the pictures, and some commen info about chickens.

5 out of 5 stars

Awesome Chicken Book! August 15, 2009
Andrea (Bowdoin, ME)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I borrowed this book from the local library, and now I am going to purchase it. It is a fantastic resource of all things chicken, from how to hatch them to how to kill them. Everything I needed to know to start my small flock is here. Very highly recommended. Photos are fantastic, too!

3 out of 5 stars

The title is incorrect! July 12, 2009
Juliana
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I saw this book in a store and I bought it when I figured out that it was about raising chickens. The title might lead you to believe that this book is about learning to tolerate chickens; fortunately it isn't.
This book is useful but not an especially valuable source of information. The pictures are good and the quotes are sometimes interesting. You could live without this book.
If you decide to purchase this book, also get a more useful one such as Storey's Guide To Raising Chickens.

4 out of 5 stars

Informative book May 12, 2009
C. Newman
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I am very satisfied with the book. I have just started a small flock of chickens....and the info in the book was very helpful.

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