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The Backyard Field Guide to Chickens: Chicken Breeds for Your Home Flock
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The Backyard Field Guide to Chickens: Chicken Breeds for Your Home Flock Paperback - 2016 - 1st Edition

by Christine Heinrichs


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Every common breed of chicken, organized into one information-packed guide.

Fueled by the local and organic food movements, as well as a sea change in local ordinances, backyard chicken keeping is booming. Anyone who's decided to join the new wave of chicken keepers knows that the poultry breeds available are dizzying in their variety. Calm your anxiety with this book--a guide for backyard chicken keepers in search of chickens that best fit their needs.

Each breed of chicken listed in the field guide is thoroughly described and is illustrated by color photos. The book tells you all about the bird, detailing each breed's particular usefulness, adaptation to climate, coloration, number of eggs typically laid, foraging ability, temperament, and unique qualities. There are fun facts about varieties of chickens, as well as information about color and comb varieties, rare breeds, classification, and hybrids.

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  • Title The Backyard Field Guide to Chickens: Chicken Breeds for Your Home Flock
  • Author Christine Heinrichs
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Voyageur Press (MN)
  • Date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780760349533 / 0760349533
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Chickens, Chicken breeds
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016000541
  • Dewey Decimal Code 636.5

About the author

Christine Heinrichs is the author of How to Raise Chickens and How to Raise Poultry (both Voyageur Press, 2013) and has won many awards over the course of her 30-year writing career. She holds a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Northern California Science Writers Association, and Ten Spurs, the honorary society of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. She is also a member of the American Poultry Association, where she serves on the Heritage Breeds Committee, the American Bantam Association, and the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy. She lives with her husband, chickens, and cat in Cambria, California.

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