Homesteader’s Library

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

Chickens in Your Backyard: A Beginner’s Guide
CHICKENS IN YOUR BACKYARD A BEGINNER’S GUIDE Rick and Gail Luttmann Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you’ve ever tasted. The answer is chickens– endearing birds that require but a modest outlay of time, space and food. As they learned to raise chickens, [...]

Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens
Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens
Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens

The Field Guide to Chickens
The story of the chicken traces the interactions of cultures around the globe. From Southeast Asia 8,000 years ago, chickens spread to ancient China and Japan, the Middle East, Europe during the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, and, from there, the world. Today, chickens fuel our poultry meat and [...]

Living with Chickens: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Flock
Finally, in paperback, the ultimate book on raising chickens.
Living with Chickens: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Flock

Choosing and Keeping Chickens
Do you raise chickens as part of the family or as a livelihood? Are you looking for helpful information to provide the best care for your chickens? Or are you just curious to learn more about this popular animal? Choosing and Keeping Chickens provides detailed information about the most common types of [...]

Ducks: A Field Guide to Familiar North American Species
12 folded panels, laminated, features over 125 color illustrations
Ducks: A Field Guide to Familiar North American Species

Duck Keeping – Poultry for Pleasure and Profit
Originally published in 1946. This work has been compiled with the object of advising the beginner on all aspects of duck management for pleasure and profit. Contents Include: Breeds of Ducks for Laying and Table Purposes – Breeding Practices and Principles – Hatching, Natural and Artificial – Rearing, [...]