My Pet Chicken Handbook by Lissa Lucas

My Pet Chicken Handbook by Lissa Lucas

The backyard chicken is the new it pet--and with good reason: These birds are personable, beautiful, and (mostly) low maintenance. But they're not without their quirks and sometimes puzzling behaviors.

That's where the experts at MyPetChicken.com have a beak up on the competition--they hear from chicken keepers daily and offer advice about common mistakes and pitfalls that occur when raising a flock of chickens in the backyard. And customers tell them that the advice they most appreciate is actually how not to raise chickens, what not to do, and why not to panic.

My Pet Chicken Handbook helps potential chicken owners decide whether chicken keeping is right for them, how to make the best choices for their situations, how to start planning for the new pets, and--most importantly--how to head off potential trouble before the chicks arrive. Detailed care instructions for baby chicks and mature hens help to ensure a friendly and enjoyable flock. Covering both the good and the oh no experiences that beginners and avid backyard farmers experience, topics include choosing coops, planning a daily routine, learning about sanitation practices, and discovering signs of distress. Then the joy of chicken keeping comes full ovoid with 50 recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, featuring the incredible and versatile egg, from homemade egg noodles and sesame mayonnaise to a vegetable frittata and caramel custard.

“If you’re thinking of raising chickens in your backyard. . The My Pet Chicken Handbook is filled with invaluable information about this enjoyable pastime. . . . It’s filled with sensible advice and savvy answers for raising backyard chickens. Thank you Traci! I can’t read enough about this subject.”—The Martha Stewart Blog

Backyard chicken expert Lissa Lucas is the head writer and marketing communications specialist for My Pet Chicken. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Marietta College, Ohio, and has worked variously as a journalist, an English teacher at a private school in China, and the communications director for a small, private university, among other positions. However, teaching people about chickens—and being perhaps the world’s only chicken advice columnist—is her favorite job by far. She blogs from a tumbledown cottage on a rural ridge top in beautiful Ritchie County, West Virginia. In addition to keeping chickens, Lissa enjoys home brewing, nature photography, cooking, yoga, crocheting, writing, and gardening.
 
Traci Torres is the CEO and cofounder of My Pet Chicken. She has been passionate about chickens ever since “Goldie” peeped out of her shell during a third-grade classroom hatching experiment. She still considers herself a “wannabe” farmer and aims to one day steward a veritable Noah’s ark of creatures. For now, she contents herself with chickens of all varieties, sizes, and provenances. She lives in rural Connecticut, along with her husband and two children.

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ISBN 13	9781623360016
ISBN 10	1623360013
Title	My Pet Chicken Handbook
Author	Lissa Lucas
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Rodale Press Inc.
Year published	2014-02-04
Number of pages	256
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