Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl Kindle Edition

My two goslings went lame and going through this book helped me figure out what was wrong and make a plan to fix it. The chick feed I was using was deficient for the goslings and I was able to suppliment and one gosling is perfectly fine now, and the other is back to only dealing with a deformed foot. Both are active and happy to be brooder moms to two chicks and a duckling.Thank You 😁

Gives great information and understandable.

I have read this book cover to cover twice. Extremely good material on the how(s) and why(s) of raising chickens from eggs or from chicks.There is a wealth of information in this book. There is both a high level overview and a detailed view on almost any topic that I can think of.I have eight chickens that lay about 35 eggs per week. I plan to increase my flock to 32 chickens now. I have purchased a number of books on Amazon regarding chickens and I put this book high on the list of "should have books". Another equally good book is "The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens". If you only bought these two books you would be very comfortable feeding your family with the eggs from your own garden.Update 8/11/14.I did not purchase new chickens to get to my goal of 32. Instead three of my hens provided baby chicks for the rest. I now have 12 adults (4 donations) and 20 chicks. This book was very helpful as I researched what to do for the new "peeps".The three hens hatched 23 chicks. Three died. This book helped me understand what to do and what not to do (and understand why we cannot do it all). One died in a half shell in the water container face down (even though this was for watering chicks). One was injured falling out of the nest (about 4 feet). I spent five days with a pen, heat lamps, hand feeding water) trying to save this one. The last one died having never been able to leave the shell (half out). In each case this book helped me understand what to do (sometimes telling me to wait it out). Nature can be cruel but knowledge can make us kind.Great book that I turn to every day as they grow. Amazing to watch the little ones run behind their mother as I bring out some "treats" for them. Grapes, mealworms, corn on the cob (from my garden), etc. If you like to care for animals, chickens are a lot of fun and this book helps understand what to do. 5 stars plus.

So much good information. We checked this book out from the library with a number of others, but we kept coming back to this book for the information we needed. We liked the book so much, that we decided to buy it. Helped us with understanding chicken terms and definitions that we were unfamiliar with. Showed nice illustrations of the Chicken Life cycle. Very good info for a chicken owner or even one who is learning about chickens for their school project.

The teaches how to hatch egg and understand chicks and there needs. Very good book

I like that this book is broken into two parts. One for raising chickens the other for incubating eggs. This is also a good book for understanding the mechanics of chickens, parts of the egg, different incubators and their uses functions etc. I really like how she gives you two perspectives of doing things modern as well as old fashioned... which may be helpful to someone on a budget or just likes to do things DIY style. Only thing I didn’t like about it is it was kind of wordy with explaining some pretty general topics.

Outcome to be determined as I don't have chickens yet. Seems very informative, we'll see...

If you’re looking for up to date, scientific, practical information about getting, hatching and caring for chicks and other poultry, well, this is the book to get. Well written, concise and informative, this book belongs in anyone’s library who wants to hatch eggs or rear chicks. I have several of the author’s books, they are all a great investment for improving your knowledge about chickens, and other poultry.

Very helpful

Great guide for my start up hatchery

This really helped me understand what was going on better than the hatching section of my existing chicken book. Definitely complimentary and worth the extra money.

Great book, very informative

Very good infomation