Here Is A Summary Of All The Important Topics You'll Find In "Incredible Chickens!"
Important 1st Steps
- How to determine if your local government allows the raising of chickens at home.
- Chickens are a big responsibility; the ethics of ownership.
- Understand the fiscal implications of owning chickens.
- Learn what kinds of regulations and requirements are normally involved once owning chickens.
- What to do before you spend a single penny.
- How to support your neighbors abreast of what you can do to support them happy.
Chickens...The Essential Facts
- Why adding or removing members of a flock can be disruptive...and what to do just about it.
- See why the ancient Romans and Greeks adored them.
- Learn what combs and wattles are and the intention they serve.
- Chickens don't have teeth, so how do they eat? The organic process system explained.
- Hens and Roosters...learn the important roles each has inside the flock.
- Discover wherever chickens came from and once they were domesticated.
- Behavior...important information you must cognize just about the flock's societal structure.
- Learn the reasons that they were 1st bred...and it wasn't for food!
- What is a chicken anyway? An summary of chicken physiology and anatomy.
Chicken Breeds
- Discover which are the rarest varieties of chicken.
- Poultry keeping; discover how to choose the better breed for your purpose.
- Understand the differences between commercial and exhibition breeds.
- Learn which breeds lay white, brown or colored eggs.
- Learn which kind of chickens lay the better eggs.
- How to choose the better breed to meet your needs.
- An anatomical diagram to discover which end is up.
- The number of breeds and the number of some physical combinations that exist.
- Find out which breeds are better for cold climates.
- See how to care for and train your chosen breed.
- Find out which breeds can be unbroken as pets.
- Where you can find nice breeders.
- Learn the four main categories of chickens and the differences between them.
Eggs and Chicks
- I'll tell you wherever you can purchase fertilised eggs or day old chicks and have them delivered to your door overnight.
- Everything you need to cognize with success incubate eggs.
- How to tell if an egg has been fertilised and how long it takes to hatch.
- Starting with eggs or chicks...pros and cons.
- Learn what Mareks Illness and Infestation is and how to protect your baby chicks from these deadly killers.
- How to determine the sex of your baby chicks.
- Discover the two most critical elements of the incubation process.
- What you need to do to get available for the delivery of live baby chicks.
- Learn why starting with eggs can be a crap shoot.
