The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens: Everything You Need to Know . . . and Didn't Know You Needed to Know About Backyard and Urban Chickens - Tapa blanda

Are you looking for a great way to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources? Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to start making this happen, even with limited space in your backyard. Let the Chicken Whisperer (poultry personality Andy Schneider) teach you everything he knows—and everything you need to know—about raising a backyard flock! Ditch the super-technical manuals and enjoy Andy’s unique, common-sense perspective—a perfect fit for your busy lifestyle! Inside you’ll learn: The Benefits of a Backyard Chicken Flock; So You’re Eggspecting: The Art of Incubation; The Art of Brooding; Home Sweet Home: Coops & Runs; Nutrition, Health, and Wellness, and much more!

Andy Schneider, better known as the Chicken Whisperer, has become the go-to guy for anything chickens. Over the years, he has helped a countless number of people start their very own backyard flocks. He is not only a well-known radio personality, as host of the “Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer” radio show, but also a contributor for Mother Earth News, Grit Magazine, and Farmers’ Almanac. He is the national spokesperson for the USDA-APHIS Bio-Security for Birds Program. He is the Founder/Organizer of the Atlanta Backyard Poultry Meetup Group and many other Meetup Groups around the United States. He has been featured on CNN, HLN, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Economist, USA Today, New Life Journal, and other local and national publications. Andy has also been traveling around the U.S. on the Chicken Whisperer Tour, educating people about the many benefits of keeping a small backyard flock of chickens. Andy and his wife Jen keep 35 chickens on their property just north of Atlanta, Georgia. Visit him online at http://www.chickenwhisperer.com.