Proven Techniques for Keeping Healthy Chickens: The Backyard Guide to Raising Chicks, Handling Broody Hens, Building Coops, and More - Paperback

by Carissa Bonham (Author)

Whether for love or money, in a backyard or a homestead, here is illustrated, practical advice any chicken keeper can use. Carissa Bonham boils down chicken-keeping into 101 easy-to-understand tips, tricks, and chicken hacks.

Advice ranges from learning how to grow your flock despite having a broody hen to directions for making a nesting box herb blend that will keep pests at bay and keep the coop smelling fresh. Other tips will touch on:

• Stretching your feed budget with fermentation
• Making a predator-proof coop
• Using your chickens to get your garden ready in the spring
• Creating easy chicken chores for kids
• And much more

Having raised a variety of chickens both inside her home and with the help of broody chicken moms, author Carissa Bonham is ready to share her chicken-keeping advice with others looking to add the joy of poultry to their lives. Her approach to chicken keeping focuses on keeping hens happy using natural methods so you can spend less time doing the dirty work and more time enjoying your flock.

Author Biography

Carissa Bonham is the owner and editor of the popular green lifestyle website Creative Green Living. She is active in several online chicken-keeping communities and her Instagram-famous chickens (follow them @CreativeGreenChickens) grace the pages of this book. She lives near Portland, Oregon, with a house full of boys and a yard full of chickens.