Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens from Hatching to Laying

Jenna Woginrich

Storey Publishing, LLC, Jan 19, 2011 - Technology & Engineering - 128 pages

Jenna Woginrich chronicles the life journey of three chickens (Amelia, Honey, and Tilda) from fluffy, newly hatched bundles to grown hens laying eggs of their own. As you watch these chickens grow, you’ll learn everything you need to know about chicken behavior, feeding, housing, and health care. This playfully informative guide will inspire you to confidently raise your own feathered flock. 
 

About the author

Jenna Woginrich is the author of An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Backyard Chickens, Barnheart and Made from Scratch. She blogs at coldantlerfarmny.com, as well as for the Huffington Post and Mother Earth News. She shares her farm in rural New York with chickens and geese, sheep, a hive of bees, and some amiable rabbits.

Photographer Mars Vilaubi chronicled the adventures of his three backyard hens from their first days out of the egg through their first days laying eggs in Chick Days. He lives in western Massachusetts.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens from Hatching to Laying
• Author: Jenna Woginrich
• Photographs by: Mars Vilaubi
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 2011
• ISBN: 1603427430, 9781603427432
• Length: 128 pages
• Subjects: House & Home / Sustainable Living; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture