2024 the best places to raise a family in the us review

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Got a little space and a hankering for fresh eggs?

Robert and Hannah Litt have dispensed advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers from behind their perch at Portland’s Urban Farm Store, and now they’re ready to help you go local and sustainable with your own backyard birds. In this handy guide to breeds, feed, coops, and care, the Litts take you under their experienced wings and share the secrets to:
 
Picking the breeds that are right for you • Building a sturdy coop in one weekend for $100 • Raising happy and hearty chicks • Feeding your flock for optimal health and egg nutrition • Preventing and treating common chicken diseases • Planning ahead for family, neighborhood, and legal considerations • Whipping up tasty egg recipes from flan to frittata
 
With everything that first-timers will need to get started—along with expert tips for more seasoned keepers—this colorful, nuts-and-bolts manual proves that keeping chickens is all it’s cracked up to be.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press; 1st edition (March 22, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1580085822
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1580085823
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.81 x 0.95 x 9.28 inches
Reviewer: J.B.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good starter book for starter chickens
Review: I got 3 chickens a year ago for my small city backyard. In preparation I read this book cover to cover to give me a sense of what I was in for. It was invaluable as a Chicken 101 crash course, as well as a book I returned to repeatedly over the course of the year when other questions came up. It doesn't hurt that the writing is whimsical without being cloying, and it is informative while still being entertaining. If anyone I know ventures down the same path of urban chicken farming as I have, I would certainly buy this book as a chicken-warming gift.(And yeah the authors are two plaid-wearing young folk from Portland--shocking, I know!) Still, great book.

Reviewer: Silea
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: the perfect book for keeping urban and suburban chickens
Review: This is the only book you need if you want to keep a few chickens in your yard.Flipping through a lot of the other highly-rated chicken books, it quickly became clear that most of them are oriented toward large-scale chicken keeping. Sure, some have added token acknowledgement that some people keep chickens as pets that happen to lay eggs, but the tone and the information are suited toward people who don't plan to name their chickens or tell stories about their antics. They're low on details about how tall a fence should be to keep the chickens from ravaging your vegetable garden, and discredit methods like clipping wings because it's just not viable if you have 200 birds.If you want to experience the joy of cracking open an egg still warm from the chicken, of knowing exactly what the chicken ate and how it was cared for, of knowing that the only carbon footprint involved in your breakfast was your trip down to the feed store every few months, this is the book for you. If you have no plans whatsoever of eating your chicken just because it stopped laying 7 eggs a week, this is the book for you. If you want a practical guide for housing chickens in a small urban back yard, heck, this book even has detailed plans for building a simple but safe coop and run. It even has a neat breakdown of how much time you will need to set aside for caring for your birds (five minutes in the morning to feed and collect eggs and let the birds out, five minutes in the evening to feed and collect eggs, and lock the door of the coop, 20 minutes once a week to add more bedding, and so on) so you have some idea of what time commitment you're actually making.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Eight new girls
Review: I did a lot of checking around before buying, this is a really good chicken book for the beginners like me. A lot of just common facts that you need to know to start rising chickens. It is for the new guy, most of the books on chickens I checked were too detailed and not for the backyard chicken farmer this one is. I have my coop 4ft wide 4ft tall in front and 38" in back and 8ft long 24" off ground x 8ft run underneath. so it is self contained and can lock them in when we are gone I put in four nesting boxes for my eight girls with a outside drop down door to gather he eggs so do not have to go into pen. I made the fence around it out of five ft welded wire.One thing I am using are chicken nipples to keep the water clean. If you have not heard of them google CHICKEN NIPPLES I got them from Amazon,made a platform on end of coop for five gal. bucket with lid,put pvc pipe fitting in bottom and run pvc pipe down side of coop with nipples. no mess always clean water and I can fill it with hose from outside pen.

Reviewer: Tee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wow!
Review: I am new to keeping chickens and I loved this book! I wish that I would have bought it first because I would not have purchased the other book that I bought. This book has EVERTHING about chickens. It is well written and humorous so it keeps your interest. I highlighted, underlined and used stickers in all the chapters so I could find what I needed easily when I need to refer back to it. The book even lists the types of chickens and tells a little about their personalities so the reader will know what type to get for their particular interests, i.e. eggs, pets, meat or a combination of traits. They explain how to build a coop, what and when to feed, how to trim feathers, different diseases, problems and solutions, etc.. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who hasn't had chickens before and really, I think it would be good even if you have kept chickens since most everything you need to know is included. I am so thankful that I made this purchase!

Reviewer: pachick
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: To those who hope to raise chicks...
Review: I am in the process of reading this book. If you hope to raise chickens for their eggs, this will be a book you want to read. If, however, you hope to raise chickens for their meat, you will want to buy something else. The book I purchased is in hardcover, which I appreciate. It is well laid-out (no pun intended) and easy to read and understand. I enjoy the conversational tone and the seasoned advice. The section I just finished reading is written to help the newcomer decide which chicken breed is best for him or her to raise. There is a reference table that rates breeds based on egg production, best with kids, unusual colored eggs, heritage breeds, etc. One classification that may be useful in the future: breed based on climate (e.g. cold tolerant vs heat tolerant). As we live in south Texas, certain breeds may not do well here. I used the internet to cross-reference the breeds expounded upon in the book and have found a few that will better tolerate the summer heat. Overall, I am really enjoying this book.