The Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens: Simple Steps for Healthy, Happy Hens [Paperback]

Keep your chickens healthy and their abundant supply of free eggs flowing with this gorgeously illustrated, no-nonsense guide for backyard chickeneers.

Whether you’re thinking about keeping chickens in the face of high egg prices or are seeking health advice for your existing flock,The Chicken Chick’s Guide to Backyard Chickenscovers everything you need to know, including coops, chick care, breed selection, chicken health, and beyond.

Internationally known as The Chicken Chick, Kathy Shea Mormino brings an informative style and fresh perspective on raising backyard chickens to millions of fans around the world. Kathy is the founder and one-woman creative force behind her wildly popular and award-winning blog, The-Chicken-Chick.com. Sharing her years of hard-earned experience and collaborations with poultry veterinarians, nutritionists, and professors, she provides simple steps to care for these fun-loving pets with confidence, covering:

• Breed selection
• Caring for chicks
• Housing essentials
• Food and water
• Egg production
• Simple steps for healthy hens
• Treating injured and sick chickens
• Managing the risk of predators and pests

With this friendly, photo-rich book as your guide, experience the emotional benefits of chicken companionship and enjoy fresh eggs from your lovingly raised hens.

Kathy Shea Morminois the author of the best-sellingThe Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens. Her background as a litigation attorney, combined with the street-cred she has garnered from sharing personal chickening successes, failures, and gaffes online in real-time make her a relatable, trustworthy adviser readers depend on to deliver the straight dope on all things regarding backyard chicken keeping. Having spent years fighting for the right to keep backyard chickens, Mormino has consistently put her money where her m