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title: "The Backyard Chicken Book: A Beginner's Guide"
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# The Backyard Chicken Book: A Beginner's Guide

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Review: Chocked full of good information 🐔 - A must for beginners, I'm a year into this and still find this very useful.
Review: Very helpful - My daughter loves this book and has found it very helpful.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #768,606 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #333 in Bird Care #410 in Sustainable Agriculture (Books) #643 in Animal Husbandry (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (51) |
| Dimensions  | 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| ISBN-10  | 1629142042 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1629142043 |
| Item Weight  | 1.22 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 208 pages |
| Publication date  | April 1, 2014 |
| Publisher  | Skyhorse |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chocked full of good information 🐔
*by J***Y on August 28, 2021*

A must for beginners, I'm a year into this and still find this very useful.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very helpful
*by A***Y on March 23, 2022*

My daughter loves this book and has found it very helpful.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The First Book To Buy
*by P***K on May 3, 2022*

Original publish 1979. Revised 2014. Knowledge founded on the education of raising chickens that began in childhood learning from his mother, and continued in the credits given in the three Sources pages in the back of the book. One hundred and eighty-seven pages, a good dozen color pictures, an equal amount of black and white pictures and diagrams of equipment and coop construction with measurements. There are plenty of charts that help troubleshoot diseases, diet and feeding, and even how to make a good barbeque sauce. There are thirteen chapters starting with what you can expect from a poultry flock; which breed is best for you; how to start your home poultry flock; brooding chicks; rearing laying flock pullets; managing for more eggs; the hen has a marvelous assembly line (discussing the internal magic of producing an egg); when the hen stops laying; fast-growing meat birds; How to butcher your meat birds; housing for your home poultry flocks; how to fight disease and pest problems, raising ducks, geese, turkeys, bantams, and guinea fowl. As mentioned previously there is a great three pages to look up reference material from other Sources, as well as an Index for quick location of pages. The author mixes in fond memories of the good and bad with practical knowledge necessary for keeping those precious little fluff balls alive until they've completed the cycle of life whether a barnyard pet or as a Fourth of July cookout. Definitely worth the buy. Unlike a few first readers selling themselves as "Beginner" books that teach you nothing, this one will help you. I've just sixteen pullets, six ducks, and a free range of over nine acres. I'll never do the five hundred his family ran but I know from his book how I could... Gotta watch out for the chicken math though.

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*Last updated: 2026-04-23*