Homesteader’s Library

Day Range Poultry: Every Chicken Owner’s Guide to Grazing Gardens and Improving Pastures
Learn about the revolutionary day-range system of raising poultry on pasture an easy, low-maintenance way to earn top-dollar by raising chickens for meat and eggs. Scores of photos and graphics make this an insightful, entertaining, and sometimes laugh-out-loud easy read as only the [...]

The Joy of Keeping Chickens: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit
The Joy of Keeping Chickens: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit
The Joy of Keeping Chickens: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit

Bantams and How to Keep Them (Poultry Series – Chickens)
Bantams and How to Keep Them (Poultry Series – Chickens)

Bantams and How to Keep Them (Poultry Series – Chickens)

Produce Your Own Eggs Now – Or How to Keep Chickens in War-Time
Rationing allows beginners to purchase food for 12 hens. 12 hens can supply a household with fresh eggs throughout the year. But how is one to start, and if started how is one to get the best results? This book will tell you [...]

How to Keep Laying Hens and to Rear Chickens
How To Keep Laying Hens And To Rear Chickens – In Large or small numbers, in absolute confinement, embracing the intensive and semi-intensive systems. Contents include: Accommodation – Breed and Strain – Feeding and Management – Breeding and Rearing – Counting The Cost

How to Keep Laying Hens [...]

Your Chickens: A Kid’s Guide to Raising and Showing
Our friendly and encouraging children’s animal reference series features information on selection, housing, behavior, feeding, health, and showing in mature yet easy-to-understand language, for ages 9 and up.
Your Chickens: A Kid’s Guide to Raising and Showing

Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance: Reflections on Raising Chickens
James Herriot meets Bill Bryson in this hilarious account of one mans relationship with his chickens

Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance: Reflections on Raising Chickens

Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens
These guides give novice and experienced livestock farmers all they need to know to successfully keep and profit from animals. Each book includes information on selection, housing, behavior, space requirements, breeding and birthing techniques, feeding, health concerns, and remedies for illness. The books also cover the business of raising animals, such [...]

How to Raise Chickens: Everything You Need to Know
A hands-on, easy-to-use guide to raising chickens in the backyard–from designing a coop to choosing breeds, caring for chicks, egging, sexing, and butchering.
How to Raise Chickens: Everything You Need to Know

Chickens: Tending a Small-Scale Flock for Pleasure and Profit
Helps hobby farmers to become more knowledgeable about their poultry and to better appreciate the bountiful gifts they bestow.
Chickens: Tending a Small-Scale Flock for Pleasure and Profit