Backyard Chickens: A Fifth-Generation Backyard Chicken Owner Shares His Family Secrets to Keeping a Happy, Productive & Healthy Flock
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Brian McGovern
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Geoff Evans
About this listen
Do you desire an endless supply of tasty, ethically laid eggs and a happy flock of friendly chickens that won’t get mauled by predators? Then keep listening!
By now, you’re probably already aware of the countless benefits of raising and breeding your own friendly, loveable chickens. These intelligent and highly amusing backyard companions will provide you with tastier and more nutritious (up to three times more vitamin E and 70 percent more vitamin B12) eggs compared to what you can find at the local store. They’ll also enjoy a better quality of life and can be a natural form of pest control on your land.
Are you about to embark on your exciting new backyard chicken journey? Do you just feel like you need a little extra guidance from a fifth-generation expert before you get started?
In Backyard Chickens, you’ll discover:
- How to choose the right breeds for your coop and climate
- Building or buying your coop – the best option for you, revealed
- One big mistake you must avoid when bringing your chickens home for the first time!
- Fifteen-plus plants you must keep away from your backyard chickens!
- Caring for baby chicks, so they grow up affectionate to you
- Laws and legislation for keeping roosters and hens in the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia
- Everything you need to know about hatching and incubating eggs
- The secrets to defending your flock against nasty predators
- Identifying and treating common health problems…even if you’ve never held a chicken in your life
- Ten myths and misconceptions that cause beginners to fail (but not you)
Even if you’re brand new to keeping chickens, with the secrets uncovered inside this audiobook, you’ll know precisely how to keep a happy flock and have more nutrient-rich, tasty eggs than you ever imagined!
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Too much fluff.
- By Brandon Horvat on 05-02-21
By: Amber Bradshaw
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Before Your Horse Comes Home
- Introductory Horse Care for Beginners
- By: Meredith Hill
- Narrated by: Bree Carlile
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story5 out of 5 stars 19
As humans, we have relied upon horses for transportation and as work partners for years. While horses aren’t essential to our everyday survival now, they are still stunning companions who can provide endless enjoyment for their human caretakers. At the same time, horses can be very complicated, especially for novice owners. Attempting to research horse care can be very overwhelming if you’re new to horse ownership. It’s all too easy to find complicated or conflicting advice. How do you determine what’s right for your equine companion?
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5 out of 5 stars
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HORSE IS COMING HOME
- By 🐺 SCARLET PIMPERNEL 🐺 on 07-06-22
By: Meredith Hill
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Teaming with Microbes
- The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
- By: Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis
- Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 333
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Story5 out of 5 stars 267
When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains plants and then become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of toxic substances. Teaming with Microbes offers an alternative to this vicious circle and details how to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web. You’ll discover that healthy soil is teeming with life - not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Poor delivery
- By Brian C. on 06-05-20
By: Jeff Lowenfels, and others
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How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It
- Tactics, Techniques and Technologies for Uncertain Times
- By: James Wesley Rawles
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,123
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 868
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Story4 out of 5 stars 845
James Wesley Rawles, founder of survivalblog.com, shares with you everything you need to know to be ready for the worst. The book includes information on proper food storage and sanitation, gardening and livestock basics, investment strategies to protect your assets, medical advice, communication techniques, home security, and how to get "outta Dodge" when, in the parlance of the movement, "the shit hits the fan".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unsurprising
- By skyrat on 04-25-11
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Fruitless Fall
- The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
- By: Rowan Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Rowell Gormon
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched 30 billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear. The remaining pollinators, essential to the cultivation of a third of American crops, are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compulsory Reading - Share with Everyone!
- By Charles Koenen on 04-12-20
By: Rowan Jacobsen
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The Boyfriend
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Victoria Connolly, Robb Moreira
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,176
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,046
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,045
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot. Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet. Then the brutal murder of a young woman—the latest in a string of deaths across the coast—confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just didn’t find it interesting.
- By Lori Cathey on 10-11-24
By: Freida McFadden