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Chicken Health Handbook, the
Gail Damerow
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Description for Chicken Health Handbook, the
Paperback. This essential guide thoroughly addresses every aspect of chicken health, including good nutrition; bacterial, viral, and fungal diseases; parasites and worms; reproductive issues; immune health; metabolic dysfunctions; and much more, with detailed solutions for any health problem your chickens encounter. Num Pages: 400 pages, full colour photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: TVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 177 x 26. .
Gail Damerow is the foremost authority on chickens in the United States, and her classic reference The Chicken Health Handbook (originally published in 1994) is now completely revised with up-to-the minute information and full-colour photography and illustrations. This essential guide thoroughly addresses every aspect of chicken health, including good nutrition; bacterial, viral, and fungal diseases; parasites and worms; reproductive issues; immune health; metabolic dysfunctions; and much more, with detailed solutions for any health problem your chickens encounter. This new second edition emphasizes natural and preventive approaches and covers issues specific to raising chickens in the city.
Gail Damerow is the foremost authority on chickens in the United States, and her classic reference The Chicken Health Handbook (originally published in 1994) is now completely revised with up-to-the minute information and full-colour photography and illustrations. This essential guide thoroughly addresses every aspect of chicken health, including good nutrition; bacterial, viral, and fungal diseases; parasites and worms; reproductive issues; immune health; metabolic dysfunctions; and much more, with detailed solutions for any health problem your chickens encounter. This new second edition emphasizes natural and preventive approaches and covers issues specific to raising chickens in the city.
Product Details
Publisher
Storey Publishing LLC United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1120g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
North Adams, United States
ISBN
9781612120133
SKU
V9781612120133
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Gail Damerow
Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including the best-selling Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard.
Reviews for Chicken Health Handbook, the
Twenty years ago, I got my first hen and turned to The Chicken Health Handbook for answers. Today, Damerow's work continues to provide sound counsel. This new edition
based in solid science, detailed and comprehensive
is an accessible and practical guide for anyone who has chickens.
Terry Golson, founder, HenCam.com A wonderful reference book filled with practical advice that any new or experienced flock owner will find beneficial.
Dr. Susan Watkins, Professor of Poultry Science, University of Arkansas A must-have book for all chicken lovers.
Jeff Smith, Cackle Hatchery An outstanding book that needs to be in every poultry raiser's library. Accurate, valuable information that can be read with ease.
Glenn Drowns, author of Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry When it comes to questions on chicken health, this is the book I turn to for quick reference. We have one on every desk at Stromberg's and recommend it to everyone from beginners to longtime fanciers. The extensive pictures, illustrations, and explanations in the new edition should make it required reading for anyone interested in keeping a strong flock.
Eric Stromberg, Stromberg's Chicks and Game Birds Unlimited Widely regarded as the Patron Saint of Poultry since her 1994 edition became the chicken keeper's bible, Gail Damerow has kept her finger on the pulse of chicken management innovations, advances, and trends, bringing us this completely recalibrated, modernized Chicken Health Handbook. More than a guide to chicken health, this book is a call to deliberate thought and informed decision-making, concisely providing the tools necessary in chapters that read like a novel. Packed with pragmatic information that embraces a holistic model of wellness, this book offers trouble-shooting tools and a panoply of real-world solutions based in solid science. It should be standard issue with every chick purchased.
Kathy Shea Mormino, The Chicken Chick(R)
based in solid science, detailed and comprehensive
is an accessible and practical guide for anyone who has chickens.
Terry Golson, founder, HenCam.com A wonderful reference book filled with practical advice that any new or experienced flock owner will find beneficial.
Dr. Susan Watkins, Professor of Poultry Science, University of Arkansas A must-have book for all chicken lovers.
Jeff Smith, Cackle Hatchery An outstanding book that needs to be in every poultry raiser's library. Accurate, valuable information that can be read with ease.
Glenn Drowns, author of Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry When it comes to questions on chicken health, this is the book I turn to for quick reference. We have one on every desk at Stromberg's and recommend it to everyone from beginners to longtime fanciers. The extensive pictures, illustrations, and explanations in the new edition should make it required reading for anyone interested in keeping a strong flock.
Eric Stromberg, Stromberg's Chicks and Game Birds Unlimited Widely regarded as the Patron Saint of Poultry since her 1994 edition became the chicken keeper's bible, Gail Damerow has kept her finger on the pulse of chicken management innovations, advances, and trends, bringing us this completely recalibrated, modernized Chicken Health Handbook. More than a guide to chicken health, this book is a call to deliberate thought and informed decision-making, concisely providing the tools necessary in chapters that read like a novel. Packed with pragmatic information that embraces a holistic model of wellness, this book offers trouble-shooting tools and a panoply of real-world solutions based in solid science. It should be standard issue with every chick purchased.
Kathy Shea Mormino, The Chicken Chick(R)