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Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens

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By (author): Kathy Shea Mormino

Keep your chickens healthy and their abundant supply of free eggs flowing with this gorgeously illustrated, no-nonsense guide for backyard chickeneers.

Whether you’re thinking about keeping chickens in the face of high egg prices or are seeking health advice for your existing flock, The Chicken Chick’s Guide to Backyard Chickens covers everything you need to know, including coops, chick care, breed selection, chicken health, and beyond.

Internationally known as The Chicken Chick, Kathy Shea Mormino brings an informative style and fresh perspective on raising backyard chickens to millions of fans around the world. Kathy is the founder and one-woman creative force behind her wildly popular and award-winning blog, The-Chicken-Chick.com. Sharing her years of hard-earned experience and collaborations with poultry veterinarians, nutritionists, and professors, she provides simple steps to care for these fun-loving pets with confidence, covering:

  • Breed selection
  • Caring for chicks
  • Housing essentials
  • Food and water
  • Egg production
  • Simple steps for healthy hens
  • Treating injured and sick chickens
  • Managing the risk of predators and pests

With this friendly, photo-rich book as your guide, experience the emotional benefits of chicken companionship and enjoy fresh eggs from your lovingly raised hens. See more
€19.99
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 203 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Oct 2017
  • Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780760352427

About Kathy Shea Mormino

Kathy Shea Mormino is the author of the bestselling The Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens. Her background as a litigation attorney, combined with the street-cred she has garnered from sharing personal chickening successes, failures, and gaffes online in real-time make her a relatable, trustworthy adviser readers depend on to deliver the straight dope on all things regarding backyard chicken keeping. Having spent years fighting for the right to keep backyard chickens, Mormino has consistently put her money where her mouth is, educating lawmakers and changing zoning regulations proving that animal welfare and the right to keep chickens responsibly is foremost on her agenda. 

In addition to being a brand ambassador for Tractor Supply Company, Purina Poultry, Vetericyn, Durvet, and Sloggers, Kathy has become the trusted voice in backyard chicken-keeping, frequently sought out by media outlets and publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Associated Press, for her perspective on chickens. She appears on local and national television, radio, and podcasts, and is featured on Discovery’s Destination America reality show Coop Dreams, as well as P. Allen Smith's Garden Home. Kathy lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughters Sophia and MaryKate where she is the personal assistant to 50+ chickens, a rescue cat, and a Yorkie with cattitude. In 2017 she took the plunge into the world of beekeeping.

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