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    Raising Chickens for Beginners: Guide To Rising Chickens For Eggs, Breed Selection, Health Care And Keeping Chickens In Your Backyard
    Raising Chickens for Beginners: Guide To Rising Chickens For Eggs, Breed Selection, Health Care And Keeping Chickens In Your Backyard
    Raising Chickens for Beginners: Guide To Rising Chickens For Eggs, Breed Selection, Health Care And Keeping Chickens In Your Backyard
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    Raising Chickens for Beginners: Guide To Rising Chickens For Eggs, Breed Selection, Health Care And Keeping Chickens In Your Backyard

    By Aaron Peterson

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    Raising Chicken: The Proven Step-by-Step Method (that Anyone Can Follow)

    Discover the Sure-fire Formula for Raising Chicken the Way you Always Wanted!

    Never worry about what to do about raising chicken again with these tips. If you are interested in learning how to do it the right way, then get the new book by Aaron Peterson: Raising Chicken for Beginners. This book is different from other resources because it offers real, straightforward, and easy-to-read instructions. Here you'll find the essential steps you MUST take if you want to increase your chances of success in the shortest time possible.

    Raising Chicken for Beginners: Guide to Raising Chicken for Eggs, Breed Selection, Health Care and Keeping Chicken in Your Backyard, is the book you have been waiting for, the author does a great job of explaining the "whys and hows" in an easy-to-understand manner, so you can use that knowledge in multiple ways, from choosing the correct breed to learning chicken behavior and psychology so you can start as soon as today. Even if you are skilled at raising chickens, you still need to read this book.

    Get actionable tips that work like a charm. Here's what you'll discover within this brilliant book:

    Why Raising Chicken Anyway? Here's How to Get Started.

    Learn the Essential Tips All Pros Use for Raising Chickens.

    The Absolutely Best Way for choosing the Correct Breed.

    Learn the Best Strategies to Improving the Chick Nursery.

    The Proven Way to Chick Care: Feeding and Watering, Dos and Don'ts.

    Emergency Chicken Health Care.

    Truth About Eating Eggs.

    Find Out the Easiest Way for Poultry Housing System.

    The Best Techniques to Manage Climate in Poultry Houses.

    Chickens and Cold or Freezing Temperatures.

    Management Requirements for Laying Flocks.

    Poultry Pest Management. 

    Discover the Best Ways to Protect Chickens from Predators.

    The Secret to Behavior & Psychology, and How You Can Create a Stress-free Environment.

    A Beginners' Friendly Guide with Easy to Follow Directions.

    And much more! Don't hesitate and start your journey NOW!

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAaron Peterson
    Release dateOct 10, 2020
    ISBN9781393078272
    Raising Chickens for Beginners: Guide To Rising Chickens For Eggs, Breed Selection, Health Care And Keeping Chickens In Your Backyard

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      Raising Chickens for Beginners - Aaron Peterson

      RAISING CHICKENS

      FOR BEGINNERS

      Guide to Raising Chickens for Eggs, Breed Selection, Health Care And Keeping Chickens In Your Backyard

      AARON PETERSON

      © Copyright 2020

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Why Raising Chickens

      Choosing The Correct Breed

      The Chick Nursery

      Chick Care: Feeding And Watering Dos And Don'ts

      Emergency Chicken Health Care

      Truth About Eating Eggs

      Poultry Housing System

      Climate In Poultry Houses

      Chickens And Cold Or Freezing Temperatures

      Management Requirements For Laying Flocks

      Poultry Pest Management

      What Are The Best Ways To Protect My Chickens From Predators?

      Behavior & Psychology

      Conclusion

      INTRODUCTION

      S

      o, will you grow chickens on your own? You are prepared to commit, be sure! Here is the first paragraph in the chick-raising guide for our six-part beginners. Let's start from scratch to phrase it like that.

      What Do You Want Chickens To Raise?

      There is a lot to enjoy in your backyard about raising chickens. Eggs are genuinely appealing — fresher and more flavorful than other supermarket eggs and perfect for cooking. The shells should be dumped straight into the compost pile with the chicken feces. Many days, birds are entertained, picking grass, worms, beetles, and everything that makes them delicious farm eggs. Moreover, chickens make perfect planting companions with their sharp focus on insect pests.

      Things To Think About Before You Get Chickens.

      Check local town regulations first to ensure that chickens are even permitted in your neighborhood, or that the amount of chickens you can maintain at the same time is limited. The last thing you want to do is spend time and energy in the care of chickens, and you can't even protect them!

      Making sure you have space for a henhouse or a chicken cup in full capacity. A feeder and water dish, a roosting region, and a nest box shall be provided for all three hens. A decent coffee shop would be large enough to easily catch eggs and shovels, but a common caterpillar might be much smaller. In addition, any housing must be secure enough to defend your chickens from all the predators! This is how you can create your backyard chicken coop.

      Day after day, chickens need food (and water). Feed at my cooperative is about 20 $for a 50-pound bag, but prices depend on your location and feed quality. How many chickens you have depends on how long a bag lasts.

      Hens lay eggs in the spring, summer, and fall, as long as the daylight lasts between 12 to 14 hours. Wait daily or even twice a day to gather your eggs.

      You must shovel manure all year round. Yippee! Yippee!

      You would need a trustworthy chicken sitter while you are out on holidays — and they can be scarcer than the teeth of hens!

      Chickens How To Raise: Flock Scale, Positioning,

      And Start-Up Costs.

      1. Where do I hold chickens?

      Chickens are sociable creatures, and they aim to hold 3 to 6 chickens. You will have a constant supply of such quantities of eggs because an adult hen lays an average of around two eggs per 3 days.

      In the first two years, the chickens are most productive; afterward, the production of the egg is slow, so that you need to think that your flock will finally be replaced by younger birds. Young chicks can be easily purchased from suppliers, or if you have a rooster, you can have their own (that we recommend NOT). Read all on infant chicks growing here!

      2. What is the space needed by chickens?

      In the end, it depends on which chicken breed you collect. According to the Extension of the University of Missouri, at least 3 square feet of floor space is needed in a chicken mixture inside the coop and a surface area of 8 to 10 feet. The room is growing, and the happier and safer chickens are; overcrowding leads to feathering and disease.

      The birds need a spot, for example, a considerable chicken run or a whole backyard to stretch its wings. The gangs are fenced to hold the chicken in and the animals out. (Our gangs have plenty of time outside. they have space to take a dust bath to catch any rays) In either form. Attach the chicken wire fencing to the hardware collection (Fido and Fluffy are both used with Predators).

      3. What would it cost to hold chickens?

      Naturally, all that costs money. You'll get at least $300 for supplies to construct and install a cafe and 20x5 feet – like timber, fencing, and hardware. You will also purchase skilled work if you cannot do this work yourself.

      In general, depending on your flock, coop, and farm, you can invest between $500 to $700 before you get going.

      And Chickens Planting

      Many people who hold chickens do so in large part because of the constant availability of fresh eggs, but do you realize that holding chickens will benefit the garden too?

      When the gardening year is over, allow the chickens to go insane into your gardening space. The stumps and stalks of weeds will be rooted, and any damaged or exaggerated vegetables will be engraved. They are consuming any weed or insect seeds they find in the field and are cutting off and digesting residues from vegetables, particularly broccoli, carrot, chard, and kale. Afterward, the earth is rubbed, and the secret worms or larvae are mixed – both with unending passion and interest.

      Chickens not only provide fresh eggs annually, but they also create a never stopping quantity of manure. Luckily, chicken poo may be turned into a plant, seed, and eventually removed. You can collect roughly one cubic foot of manure per chicken in around six months.

      Collect and stack the chicken poop and used bedding materials during your daily cleaning of the coop. The highest split occurs where two sections of the sheet are composed up one piece up bedding. The blend may also be filled with lawn-cutters, fruit and vegetable remnants, grass, twigs, and shredded paper. Soak the plate, spray, and apply air periodically during the next year or so. Bacteria should be eliminated at a temperature of 130 F to 150 F.

      WHY RAISING CHICKENS

      C

      hickens offer other advantages. If you have a layer or double-focused bird, one of the key benefits is eggs. Right in your garden, you'll have fresh chickens. For your gardens and lawns, chickens even make an outstanding fertilizer. You'd have organic poultry meat too if you thought it's appropriate!

      1. Layers

      Layers are any chicken that is raised for eggs directly.

      It began to get going.

      It is best to begin in late summer, to minimize heating expenses as you plan to lift your flock from chicks. The fastest and cheapest option is to purchase ready-to-lay pullets aged 18-22 weeks. The first week should be launched at 92-95 F and slowly decreased by five degrees a week until it hits 70 degrees F when you begin chicks. Approximately 20 weeks old, hens should be put in development.

      Feed and drink.

      A fully healthy diet can be served in layers. They will feed 18% to 20% of the protein starters for the first six to eight weeks, then 14 to 15%, and eventually 16% to 18% protein layer with grain and calcium supply should be fed into a different feeder for layers of over 18 weeks. If birds are scraps of a table or whole grain, development may decrease, fat and prolapse. Three inches of feeder space should be given per species. The lip of the feeder was just one-third to half maximum filled to minimize feed loss with the bird's height. Provide per 20 birds with at least a gallon of clean, new water every day. The lip of the waterer must be equal to the back of the birds. For more than 12 hours, Hens should not be without water, or egg development may stop or decrease.

      Laying.

      Pullets will be produced at around 20 to 80 weeks old and continue in development. Mold the flock together after 80 weeks. After molting, birds are going to take 10 to 12 weeks

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