How to Keep Chickens at Home

Everything you need to know to make chicken keeping easy and fun

This eBook shows you how!

Fresh eggs for breakfast, an end to kitchen waste, a friendly and educational pet... all this and more can be yours with chickens in your garden.

Chickens are cheap to buy and easy to manage, and one of the most eco-friendly additions you can make to you home. This book will help you start out on the rewarding road to self-sufficiency.

Establish a happy flock that is easy to manage with minimal effort
Buy the right coop for your hens and save money in the future
Cut vets bills by diagnosing common ailments, including impacted crop, egg bound hens, moulting and broodiness
Learn which supplements will keep your birds healthy and improve egg production
Draw up a complete shopping list - with costs - for the first-time chicken keeper
Save money on chicken food by re-using your kitchen scraps

Complete Beginners' Guide

How to Keep Chickens at Home is the only beginners' guide you need. Its clear, non-technical content will take you from novice to seasoned keeper in a few short days, and provide you with all the backup information you will need over the course of your chicken-keeping life.

A full glossary defines the most common chicken terms, so you can tell your crop from your gizzard, your coop from your pop hole and your grit from your oyster shell. Never again need you be confused by the terms use in forums or your veterinary practice.
An extended reading list shows you where to turn when you want to take things further.
7 great recipes for using your eggs, including quiche, cake and candy. All are easily adapted for your own particular tastes.

Everything you need to know

This comprehensive beginners' guide to chicken keeping has been written to get you up and running as quickly as possible, including:

How to choose the right chicken house
What is the best feeder - a hopper or a trough
Keep your chickens healthy by combatting drinker algae growth
Keeping your chickens contained
What chickens eat
How to save money on chicken food
What kitchen scraps are suitable for your hens
Choosing the right commercial chicken food
Why your chickens need grit
How oyster shell can make your hens - and their eggs - stronger
Treating ill hens using store-cupboard supplies
How active bokashi supplement can improve your chicken manure

Everything you need to know before setting up a small flock in your own back yard. Plus, order today and receive a free bonus egg laying log ebook - for the bargain price of just £3.75!

Diagnose common chicken problems

Broodiness
Colds
Cannibalism
Egg binding
Egg eating
Impacted crop
Laying fewer eggs
Moulting
Pecking
Weak or thin shells

This book answers the most common questions asked by a first-time chicken keeper, including:

How much space do my chickens need?
What do chickens eat?
How do chickens cope with the cold?
Why have my chickens stopped laying?
What are the best feeders and drinkers for my chickens?
How many chickens should I buy?
What will my neighbours think when I tell them I am buying chickens?

Click the shaded tabs below to see some sample pages from this great eBook, which answers all of these questions and more.

Chickens are one of the most rewarding pets you can keep and, when looked after properly, they are contented, friendly animals. They are a great addition to any garden and, for the keen gardener, they can help in many ways. Their droppings make an excellent fertilizer, and they will happily dig over an empty vegetable patch for you prior to planting up as they scratch and peck at the earth.

Full reading list of books for the first-time chicken keeper, including:

Henkeeping: Inspiration and Practical Advice
Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps
The Chicken Health Handbook
Starting with Chickens: A Beginners' Guide
The Complete New Book of Self-Sufficiency
Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance
Our Farm

PLUS these great recipes for baking with your first eggs:

Brie and Broccoli Quiche
Rum Truffles
Marble cake
Chocolate mousse
Coffee cake
Pancakes
Lemon Curd

Plus FREE daily laying log book

As a bonus, you'll also receive a FREE daily laying log book. Use your log book to monitor your hens' production over the course of the year to anticipate dips and spikes in your egg supply and identify when to replace your hens.

Track daily, monthly and annual egg laying
Monitor your flock's performance
Easily identify potential problems that may lead to reduced egg laying
Understand when it is time to add new hens to your flock to maintain supply
Immediate overview with easy-to-complete graphs

Buy both of these ebooks now for the special online price of just £3.75 and download your purchase immediately.

Two great eBooks for just £3.75, with all you need to know about keeping chickens in your back garden. Buy now with confidence. Payments processed through PayPal so you can download your books right away.

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