Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

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Beschreibung

Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you’ll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.

Über den Autor

Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including What’s Killing My Chickens? and the best-selling Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard. Visit her online at [...].

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: The Chicks

1 Acquiring Your First Chicks

2 Setting Up Your Brooder

3 Managing Water, Feed, and Bedding

4 What to Expect as They Grow

5 Hatchling Health Issues

Part 2: The Eggs

6 The Broody Hen

7 Selecting an Incubator

8 Eggs for Hatching

9 Operating an Incubator

10 What Went Wrong?

11 Hatchling Identification

Appendix: Screwpot Notions

Glossary

Acknowledgments

Resources

Index

Interior Photography Credits

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Landwirtschaft & Gartenbau
Genre:	Importe , Umwelt
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Ökologie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781612120140
ISBN-10:	1612120148
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Damerow, Gail
Hersteller:	Workman Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	273 x 214 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Gail Damerow
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.01.2013
Gewicht:	0,788 kg