Living with Chickens: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Flock,   ISBN:9781592280131

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I bought this book based on a number of good reviews and was not disappointed. It's a great primer or source of additional information for anyone with a backyard flock. I have read through a number of feed store poultry management books and another title, Raising Poultry the Modern Way. I found Living with Chickens to be far easier reading and significantly more useful as Rossier dispatches with traditional, industrially-based farming methods and presents a slightly more natural, enlightend approach to chicken care.

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I'm not as impressed with this book as most of the reviewers are!

But I do have to say, the pictures are in color,(which I like), big, and very nice photogrophy (most of them!). There is also info on chicken coops , and your basic raising of regular chickens.
There is only info here about feeding your chickens regular food.

I was looking for a book that also told about feeding your birds healther food, so the eggs would be healthier. I was interested in the eggs, not watching how to kill chickens.I also was not planning on killing my birds, but I gress that comes with chicken books!!
I do know if you feed your chickens ground up flax seed, along with there food, your eggs yokes will have Omega-3 in them. (proven fact) Also let them be free range during the day.

That said, I thought it was disgusting when it came to how she kills her chickens, and the
picture of the chicken being held down with a broom handle over its neck,chocking it to death,while she is standing on the broom, till she cuts its artery, But the chicken is still not dead!.

Then she shows how to put the chicken in a Killing Cone, that allows just its head and neck sticking out the small end (not a bad idea, but).
"The killing cone helps to prevent the bruising that can occur when the bird Flaps and Struggles while it bleeds out" Which says to me. That chicken that was your Pet, is now in pain and struggling in pain till its death!
Also the cone will keep the blood from splattering on you!!!..
I'm not a farmer, this made me sick! I live on a few acres with animals, but we do not kill them..

I do eat chicken (not much. after this book, maybe not at all), but if anyone thinks this is a great picture book for little kids, I do not know where your coming from, Or what your thinking!!

I gave this book two stars for the pictures, and some commen info about chickens.

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I borrowed this book from the local library, and now I am going to purchase it. It is a fantastic resource of all things chicken, from how to hatch them to how to kill them. Everything I needed to know to start my small flock is here. Very highly recommended. Photos are fantastic, too!

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I saw this book in a store and I bought it when I figured out that it was about raising chickens. The title might lead you to believe that this book is about learning to tolerate chickens; fortunately it isn't.
This book is useful but not an especially valuable source of information. The pictures are good and the quotes are sometimes interesting. You could live without this book.
If you decide to purchase this book, also get a more useful one such as Storey's Guide To Raising Chickens.

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I am very satisfied with the book. I have just started a small flock of chickens....and the info in the book was very helpful.