This book covers topics such as:

Why raise chickens?

Before you begin…

Regulations

Diseases and other maladies

Buying laying hens, chicks or hatching the eggs yourself

Pecking order

What type of chickens?

White eggs, brown eggs, or colored eggs?

Brown eggs

White eggs

Colored eggs (Blue/Green)

Full sized birds or bantams?

Egg production

Broodiness

Hardiness

Confinement

Egg layers

Meat birds

Setting up your brooder

Heat lamp

Box/brooder

Litter

Feeding and watering

Chicks

Pasting up

and much more!

Links to other resources such as PDFs from Universities, charts and pictures, coop designs, and more, are presented throughout the book.