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  • Backyard Chickens for Beginners

  • A Practical Handbook to Raising Chickens in a Happy Backyard Flock, Choosing the Right Breed, Feeding and Health Care.
  • By: Tom Lee
  • Narrated by: Aaron Miller
  • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
  • 2.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Backyard Chickens for Beginners

By: Tom Lee
Narrated by: Aaron Miller
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Learn how to raise healthy chickens.

When starting a backyard chicken coop, one of the first decisions you'll have to make is which breed of chicken you will raise. Each breed has specific characteristics and can be used for different purposes. In general, though, chicken breeds break down into three groups: egg layers, meat chickens, and dual-purpose chickens.

Egg layers produce both a nice quantity and quality of egg. Egg color can also be a factor here. Despite what you have seen in the market, not all chicken eggs are white or brown! Some chickens lay blue, green, or pink eggs which may be less desirable.

The Leghorn chicken is the best egg-layer that is commonly used by beginners. A mature hen can lay up to 280 eggs in one year. The eggs are large, and white to off-white in color. Leghorns tend to be smaller than other backyard chickens and have a good nature suitable for a backyard flock. Many commercial farms use the Leghorn as their egg layer of choice.

What you are going to learn in this book:

  • What are the best backyard chicken breeds?
  • Should you raise meat chickens?
  • Introducing new chickens to your existing flock
  • Hidden costs of raising chickens
  • Problems you should expect with raising backyard chickens

Meat chickens, sometimes called fryers or broilers, are raised for the meat they can provide. If meat is what you want from your flock, then size and weight matter. Some good meat chickens, like the New Hampshire Red, can grow up to nine pounds. You'll also want to make sure the skin color and shape of the chicken breed is suitable for cooking. In general, a nice rounded chicken with yellow skin (under the feathers) is preferred.

©2020 Tom Lee (P)2021 Tom Lee
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horrible AI reading.

probably would be better book if it werent for the fact it was read with an AI voice. just so you know, unless you're just trying to take advantage of the chicken craze, people that raise chickens are down to earth people. speaking to them needs to be genuine and honest. To the idiot woke left, I suppose this type of reading is fine. If you want credibility, then be honest, even in your readings.

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