$10 · How to Raise Day-Old Chicks in Your Back Yard

New, for sale by author in Mill Bay, Vancouver island A chicken book all about raising chickens, poultry, hens and more This can be picked up in Mill Bay, near McDonald's, with payment in cash, or I can mail it by Canada Post (see details below) with payment by e-transfer. soft cover 8.5" x 11" 45 pages The author, Jenny Robson, has made a reference book for those wanting to raise chickens / poultry for the first time. She covers such basics as heat and space needs, brooder and coop layout, feeding and more, for layer and broiler chickens, and continues when they are fully grown hens and roosters. She goes into a number of problems likely to be encountered in a small flock and has also added some information about incubating eggs and broody hens. Jenny has had extensive experience raising day-old-chicks when she operated a small farm on Vancouver Island. INDEX see below. SHIPPING $5. The book can be shipped to you using Canada Post oversize letter service, in a plain brown envelope. Usually, I should be able to mail it the day after the order comes in to save you driving to Mill Bay. $8. I can send it in a padded envelope. Unfortunately, it jumps up to the next price range at Canada Post and the padded envelope costs more than a plain brown envelope INDEX TABLE OF CONTENTS • DISCUSSION OF BREEDS Old Fashioned Breeds versus Modern Crosses Giant Breeds Mid-size (heavy) Breeds Small Layer Breeds Bantams (Banties) Commercial Crosses Sex Links • SPACE NEEDS Layer Chicks Broiler Chicks / Meat Birds • HEAT NEEDS • BEDDING • ROOSTS Mid Size, and Smaller, Hens Broiler Hens • WATER • FEEDING YOUR CHICKENS Grit and Oyster Shell Home Devised Diet: Survival Rations, Preserving Eggs Commercial Feed Meat Bird (Broiler) Chicks only Layer Chicks Only Laying Hens Only Free Range Hens: Feed • FREE RANGE LAYER HENS • CHICKEN ACCOMMODATION Chicken Coop Drawing Brooder Area Brooder Layout Chicken Coop Layout Nesting Boxes Nesting Box and Feeder Drawings • BEFORE THE CHICKS ARRIVE & THEIR FIRST DAY • CHICKEN PROBLEMS For Serious Health Problems: Less Serious Chicken Problems: Broken Legs and Heart Attacks in Meat Birds Black Head Disease Catching Chickens Coccidiosis Disease Prevention Egg Eating Eggs, Stop Laying Hawks Impacted Crop Infertile Eggs Keeping Hens Fenced in Pasted Vent Pecking other hens Roosters fighting Straddle Legs • INCUBATING YOUR OWN EGGS Testing the eggs: Candling and Floating Incubation Temperatures Setting the Eggs Hatching • USING A BROODY HEN • MOVING THE CHICKENS HOME • A WORD ABOUT TURKEYS • ABOUT THE BACKYARD CHICKEN FARMER • IDEA FOR SUBSISTANCE FARMING IN THE BAHAMAS USING, OF COURSE, CHICKENS AND MORE