Chickens In Your Back Yard is a great book - friendly and casual, but still chock-full of information.
The authors assume that you will most likely be keeping chickens for pets, and adjusts their advice accordingly. This is the first chicken book I bought.
Practical Poultry Keeping is a classic, first published in 1943.
Its presumed audience is someone who wants to start their own small-scale commercial flock, so it's not geared towards the backyard chicken owner. But it has a lot of valuable and detailed scientific information about weights, feed percentages, and chicken coop or shed construction.
Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans For Housing Your Flock provides plenty of fun daydreaming while browsing.
This is a great resource for inspiration and suggestions, even if you don't end up building from one of the plans provided.
|
|
Ravelry: RedshirtKnitting
|
|
On March 24, 2009 I bought four baby chicks: two Buff Orpingtons (Martha and Ethel), one Rhode Island Red (Harriet), and a Black Star (Dolly).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2009
Eggs: 381
Cost: $888.19
Cost Per Egg: $2.33
2010
Eggs: 47
Cost: $16.53
Cost Per Egg: $.35
Totals
Total eggs: 428
Total Cost: $904.72
Total Cost Per Egg: $2.11
|
Ravelry: RedshirtKnitting
Hulu: Mechagrue
|
|
