From Cluck to Coop
From Cluck to Coop

Author: Barrett Williams

Publisher: Barrett Williams

Published: 2024-06-26

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13:

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**From Cluck to Coop The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Chickens** Discover the joys and rewards of raising your own backyard flock with "From Cluck to Coop." Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned urban farmer, this comprehensive eBook provides everything you need to know about nurturing happy, healthy chickens right in your backyard. Get ready to embark on a fulfilling journey of sustainable living, delicious fresh eggs, and a deeper connection to nature. **Selecting the Perfect Breed** Start your adventure by assessing your needs and environment to choose the ideal chicken breed for your backyard. Gain insights on selecting breeds for egg production, meat, or companionship, and ensure harmony in your flock with tips on temperament and compatibility. **Building the Ideal Coop** Design a chicken coop that will keep your flock safe, happy, and productive. With detailed plans and must-have components for constructing secure and clean nesting areas, you’ll create a perfect sanctuary for your feathered friends. **Equipping Your Coop** Equip your coop with essential tools and supplies, from feeders and waterers to heating systems and cleaning equipment. Make your chicken keeping experience smooth and enjoyable with practical advice on maintenance and care. **Raising Healthy Chicks** Bring your chicks home with confidence. Learn about initial health checks, setting up brooders, and the gradual transition to the coop. Establish routines that ensure your chicks grow strong and healthy. **Daily Care and Health** Understand the daily care routines that keep your chickens thriving. This guide covers feeding schedules, watering needs, egg collection, and storage. Plus, learn about common poultry diseases and prevention methods to maintain a healthy flock. **Seasonal and Advanced Care** Master the nuances of seasonal care with winterizing tips and summer cooling strategies. Dive into advanced topics like breeding, hatching, and integrating other poultry species for a well-rounded backyard operation. **Sustainable and Community Practices** Integrate your chickens into a sustainable backyard ecosystem with composting techniques and waste recycling. Build positive relationships with neighbors and advocate for urban poultry keeping in your community. **Reflect, Grow, and Celebrate** Reflect on your first year and beyond, setting goals for improvement and celebrating your successes. This guide will be your steadfast companion in achieving backyard poultry success and living a more sustainable lifestyle. Ready to turn your backyard into a thriving poultry haven? "From Cluck to Coop" is your essential resource, guiding you every step of the way. Grab your copy today and start your rewarding journey in backyard chicken keeping!

A Cop & a Coop
A Cop & a Coop

Author: Hillary Avis

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781677863471

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It's a mother-clucking murder!When Leona Davis hatches a plan to return to her beloved hometown of Honeytree, Oregon, she hopes to build the egg farm of her dreams and leave behind the marriage of her nightmares.But the yolk's on her when she breaks ground on her chicken palace and unearths a skeleton in her front yard. It's clearly fowl play. The bones may be decades old, but there's no statute of limitations on murder.With a county forensics team roosting on her lawn and a flock of town gossips poking their beaks where they don't belong, Leona's well-laid farming plans may be nothing more than a wing and a prayer.Her spicy high school ex, Sheriff Eli Ramirez, assures Leona he'll crack the case, but he's not exactly a hardboiled detective. Her best hope to get back to a life with more hens and less mens' Scramble to uncover her small town's buried secrets before everything's totally plucked.A Cop and a Coop is the first book in the clever, irreverent Clucks and Clues Cozy Mysteries that will keep you chuckling and guessing until the end.

Cluck's First Steps
Cluck's First Steps

Author: Barrett Williams

Publisher: Barrett Williams

Published: 2024-04-22

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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Step into the fascinating world of backyard chicken keeping with "Cluck's First Steps," the ultimate guide to raising your own flock for egg-cellent results. Whether you dream of fresh eggs every morning or simply enjoy the charm of having feathered friends, this guide is your comprehensive resource for everything from A to Egg. Embark on a journey through 16 meticulously crafted chapters, each offering in-depth insights into various aspects of chicken care. Discover how to evaluate your space and navigate local regulations to ensure your chicken project takes off without a hitch. With detailed explorations of the top egg-laying breeds, learn to choose the perfect feathery companions for your environment and needs. "Cluck's First Steps" delves into the nuts and bolts of chicken-keeping equipment, from coop essentials to the best feeders and waterers that promise optimal nutrition and health for your flock. And speaking of coops, learn to design a home for your hens that blends functionality with comfort, ensuring your chickens are safe, happy, and productive. Want to witness the miracle of life? Our guide walks you through the brooding process, from setting up a cozy brooding area to transitioning your chicks to their outdoor abode. Maximize egg production with our expert advice on feeding your flock, and keep your chickens clucking with joy through engaging socialization and bonding techniques. Maintenance, health, and welfare are not just important—they are crucial. "Cluck's First Steps" covers daily and weekly routines, preventative health care, and common ailments, ensuring your hens stay in prime laying condition. Learn the ins and outs of egg collection and handling, maintaining flock dynamics, and understanding the reproductive life of chickens. Dive into the nuts and bolts of seasonal care, discover ways to sustain your chicken investment in a cost-efficient manner, and explore beyond egg production with information on breeding, poultry shows, and community engagement. Lastly, quench your thirst for knowledge with a vast array of resources and opportunities for further learning. Don't wing it—let "Cluck's First Steps" guide you every step of the way in your chicken-keeping adventure. With this guide in hand, you're not just setting up a coop; you're creating a lifestyle that brings you closer to nature, sustainability, and the sheer joy of backyard farming. Get ready to hatch a new hobby that's sure to bring you endless entertainment and farm-fresh eggs!

Cluck
Cluck

Author: Susan Troller

Publisher: Anchor Books

Published: 2012-09-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780981516134

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From barnyard to backyard, lowly hens have flown the country coop and joined the city chicken movement. A new generation of small-acreage farmers raising heritage breeds has inspired urbanites and suburbanites across America to install some poultry out back for eggs, meat, fertilizer, and cockeyed companionship. Whether the breed is Jersey Giant, Wyandotte, Buff Orpington, or Silver Frizzle Polish--chickens are now chic. This is not a how-to book on raising chickens but rather a wry, fascinating, sometimes startling appreciation of them, conveyed in compelling accounts by Susan Troller and striking prints and paintings by S.V. Medaris. A bonus: chicken stories from three of Wisconsin's most celebrated writers--Jane Hamilton (The Book of Ruth, A Map of the World), Michael Perry (Coop, Population 485), and Ben Logan (The Land Remembers)--round out the collection.

Meows from the Manse
Meows from the Manse

Author: Barry Blackstone

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1666743585

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If you are a cat lover and a Christian, then this book is for you. Seventeen years in the making, Meows from the Manse is a collection of remembrances and reflections from a Maine pastor about his “cat of a lifetime” and the years they lived together at the parsonage (manse) of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Ellsworth, Maine. Eddie was a stray tomcat that eventually worked his way into the heart of this reluctant minister, despite the fact that this man of the cloth never liked cats. Surrounded by cats in his younger years on a family farm, and always living with a cat or two because of his wife’s love affair with cats (Coleen’s last cat would live twenty-two years—sixteen of them with Eddie), and his kid’s love of cats, the exploits and experience with Eddie would change this pastor’s mind about cats, teaching him the biblical challenge of Job 12:7: “But ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee!” Relive the years with Eddie and the Pearl (Coleen’s cat) and the enriching spiritual lessons this preacher learned from his constant companion and friend through the challenging years as a pastor of a small coastal church, the death of a thirty-nine-year-old son, and the passing of his dear wife of forty-eight years. The cat tales begin with Eddie’s arrival across from the pastor’s church and end with the passing of Eddie from throat cancer. In between are insights you might not believe from the Bible, but for the author were some of the best sermons he heard during that period of his life. Without a doubt for this widower, the messages (meows) from Eddie were some of the best he ever heard, but he will let you be the judge!

How to Speak Chicken
How to Speak Chicken

Author: Melissa Caughey

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1612129110

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Best-selling author Melissa Caughey knows that backyard chickens are like any favorite pet — fun to spend time with and fascinating to observe. Her hours among the flock have resulted in this quirky, irresistible guide packed with firsthand insights into how chickens communicate and interact, use their senses to understand the world around them, and establish pecking order and roles within the flock. Combining her up-close observations with scientific findings and interviews with other chicken enthusiasts, Caughey answers unexpected questions such as Do chickens have names for each other? How do their eyes work? and How do chickens learn? Foreword INDIES Silver Award Winner

Epic Eggs
Epic Eggs

Author: Jennifer Sartell

Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)

Published: 2017-11

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 0760352224

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Epic Eggs is for the backyard farmer that wants to get the most out of their poultry and learn what goes into raising birds to lay the perfect egg.

Building Chicken Coops For Dummies
Building Chicken Coops For Dummies

Author: Todd Brock

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-11-28

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1119543886

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Building Chicken Coops For Dummies (9781119543923) was previously published as Building Chicken Coops For Dummies (9780470598962). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. As the popularity of urban homesteading and sustainable living increases, it’s no wonder you’re in need of trusted, practical guidance on how to properly house the chickens you’re planning (or have already begun) to keep. Building Chicken Coops For Dummies gives you the information you need to build the most cost-efficient, safe, and easy-on-the-eye enclosures for your backyard flock. This practical guide gives you easy-to-follow and customizable plans for building the backyard chicken coop that works best for you. You’ll get the basic construction know-how and key information you need to design and build a coop tailored to your flock, whether you live in a small city loft, a suburban backyard, or a small rural farm. Includes detailed material lists, instructions, and schematic plans for building a host of different chicken coops Step-by-step guidance on how to build a coop—or design your own Accessible for every level of reader Whether you’re just beginning to gain an interest in a back-to-basics lifestyle or looking to add more attractive and efficient coops to your current flock‘s digs, Building Chicken Coops For Dummies gives you everything you need to build a winning coop!

Cluck's Luck
Cluck's Luck

Author: Randlett Jordan

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2022-02-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1635684579

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Cluck's Luck is a fable of friendship among a chicken (Cluck), a work horse (Peggy), and a New Hampshire farmer (Foster). In spring, 1946, Foster receives mail order chicks, including a bonus Black Australorp, at no charge. Cluck takes her status as a "free chick" literally. The novel follows her expanding moral sensibilities, adventures over the first year of life, evolving affection for Peggy, and her trenchant observations of complex relations between the human farm family and creatures in their charge. Foster, his wife, Frances, eight-year-old Victor, and twelve-year-old Winifred provide characters with whom nonfictional families can identify. Similar in tone, diction, and humor to Charlotte's Web, Cluck's Luck addresses inevitable conflicts as Cluck and other animals attempt to balance loyalty with their struggle for freedom and justice within the farm context, where life and death issues are ever present. The story is set on Foster's farm, except for a period when Cluck escapes and makes her way to an abandoned, neighboring farm where she joins a colony of independent animals. After overwintering there, Cluck concludes that her friendship with Peggy is more valuable than the independence she has attained. She then returns to the farm. After the children are grown and gone, Frances leaves too. Peggy's eyesight dims, but with Cluck giving guidance from Peggy's shoulder and Foster behind with the reins, the three work together for the rest of their lives.