How to Raise Chickens in Your Own Backyard

DIY Chicken Coop Plan: How to Breed and Raise Quality Poultry in a Small Space

By: Jeff Perkins, Jenny Perkins

Narrated by: Laura Johnson

Have you ever wanted to know how to raise chickens on your own? Are you curious as to how to keep a flock of backyard chickens? I wrote my audiobook, How to Raise Chickens in Your Own Backyard, all about chicken care and raising backyard poultry for healthy meat and eggs to provide for your family. I believe in the philosophy of natural chicken keeping.

In this audiobook, we will be looking at the best ways to get into chicken rearing and how to prepare the best chicken coop for your backyard project. Having grown up on a ranch, I gathered a lot of information about chicken rearing in my lifetime. Coincidentally, I married a wife who happens to be a farmer, too. In the past 10 years, we have been focusing on small scale poultry farming to fulfill our passions and feed our family. We also hold local classes teaching people how to start their own backyard chicken flock.

Chicken eggs and meat that you grow yourself is much healthier and can even be cheaper over time than buying mass-produced commercial chicken meat and eggs. You can control the environment of the chickens when you raise them yourself. You can ensure that the chickens are raised naturally, organically, free-range, or however you choose. With the rising price of poultry and growing demand for eggs, this can even be a lucrative venture, if you choose to sell your products.

This audiobook has conclusively provided solutions to three key areas of backyard chicken rearing. It starts by providing background information on backyard farming. We help you understand the principles of backyard chicken raising and the benefits. We have outlined the benefits and negatives of keeping chickens in your backyard for your consideration. We also look at a step by step process of constructing practical backyard coops.

You will learn all about how to raise backyard chickens. This audiobook is broken into three distinct parts: How to plan the perfect backyard chicken project, building the perfect coop for you, and taking care of your chickens.

You will learn:

• Common terms related to raising chickens
• Why you should or should not raise chickens
• Beginners’ mistakes to avoid
• Types of chicken breeds
• How to pick a breed and what are common backyard breeds
• A discussion about coops and runs
• Planning your coop placement
• The cost of keeping chickens vs. buying eggs and chicken meat
• Building the chicken coop
• How to maintain chicken coops
• Keeping chickens happy, healthy, and thriving
• Where to buy chickens
• How to choose the right breeder
• How to pick chicks
• How to care for chicks
• How to care for older chickens
• What plants/foods are toxic to chickens
• Coop housekeeping
• Nesting environment
• Egg harvesting
• Think like a chicken: egg-laying behaviors
• Signs of a sick bird and how to deal with sick birds
• How to deal with a bird carcass
• Troubleshooting chicken farm issues

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very informative the voice was too farmyard but got good information. going to read again