Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl

By Gail Damerow

Book Overview

Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you'll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612120148
• ISBN13: 9781612120140
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 10.8"