Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you've ever tasted. The answer is chickens--endearing birds that require but a modest outlay of time, space and food. As they learned to raise chickens, Gail and Rick Luttmann came to realize the need for a comprehensive but clear and nontechnical guide. Their book covers all the basics in a light and entertaining sytle, from housing and feeding through incubating, bringing up chicks, butchering, and raising chickens for show. Througout the book, the Luttmanns express their wonder at the personalities of chickens--the role of brash protector played by roosters, and the instinctive motherliness of the hens. Given some freedom and attention, these birds can become much more than the egg-and-meat machines of commercial hatcheries and broiler factories. Chickens provide backyard farmers with enjoyable pastime, as well as a supply of good food.

Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide

Business & Money

Damerow, Gail

Luttmann, Gail

Industries

Rodale Books

Gail Luttman, experienced writer as well as expert in the field of milk goats, has written the book on this popular subject. Selecting milk goats. Economic consideration. Feeding: pasture, forage, grains. Housing &amp; equipment. Milk &amp; cheese. Breeding &amp; reproduction. Caring for kids: newborn to weaning. Health care: diagnosis by symptoms. The dairy goat business. All of the information is up-to-date, much of it hard to find. Luttmann particularly excels in her chapters on feeding, on the dairy goat business where she discusses marketing milk products as well as market development, and in her outstanding chapter on health care including a diagnostic discussion of symptoms rather than diseases. Extremely helpful!

Raising Milk Goats Successfully

Science & Math

Technology

Williamson Pub

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