Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies )

Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies )

Author: Visit Amazon's Bonnie Jo Manion Page | Language: English | ISBN: 1118547543 | Format: PDF

Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies ) Description

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Learn to:

Create a gorgeous chicken- friendly landscape
Raise plants beneficial to you and your chickens
Manage pests and predators

Maintain a beautiful garden with chickens

Chickens are great gardening assistants, with lots of benefits for a home garden and landscape — from soil-building to managing pests and weeds. Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies provides step-by-step guidance for creating a gorgeous chicken-friendly landscape that helps the chickens and the garden thrive.

Get started — grasp the concept of gardening with chickens, understand how the two complement one another, and get your yard and family ready to welcome home your free-ranging flock
How does your garden grow? — get a grip on designing a chicken-friendly garden, from softscape and hardscape materials and garden structures to growing an edible landscape for you and your chickens
Manage your flock — discover everything you need to know about chicken behavior and training, how to handle changes in a flock, and ways to deal with predators, disease, parasites, old age, and death

Open the book and find:

The benefits of gardening with chickens
Landscaping ideas and tips to use in your own garden
The anatomy of a chicken coop
How to create a layered plant landscape
Popular edibles to grow
Tips for training and managing your flock
Ways to keep your flock safe from predators
Common chicken diseases and parasites

About the Author

Bonnie Jo Manion has been featured in national garden magazines with her gardens, organic practices, chickens, and designs. Follow Bonnie at VintageGardenGal.com. Rob Ludlow is the owner of BackYardChickens.com, a top source on chicken raising, and the coauthor of Raising Chickens For Dummies.

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Series: For Dummies (Home & Garden)
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (July 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1118547543
ISBN-13: 978-1118547540
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Introduction 1

Part I: Getting Started with Gardening and Chickens 7

Chapter 1: Joining Forces: Companion Gardening with Chickens 9

Chapter 2: Preparing Your Garden for Chickens 33

Chapter 3: Preparing Yourself and Your Family for Chickens 63

Chapter 4: Creating Your Space for Free-Range Chickens 83

Part II: Designing a Chicken-Friendly Garden 101

Chapter 5: Creating a Safe and Smart Garden Space: Landscape Material Ideas 103

Chapter 6: From Garden to Pasture: Perfect Plantings for All Your Needs 125

Chapter 7: Growing Good Eats for Chickens and People 147

Chapter 8: From Lawns to Poisonous Plants: Other Landscape Considerations 165

Part III: Chicken Care: Tending to Your Flock 181

Chapter 9: Know Thy Flock: Understanding Chicken Behaviors 183

Chapter 10: Caring for Chickens: Predators, Sickness, Injury, and Death 199

Part IV: The Part of Tens 221

Chapter 11: Ten Common Chicken Problems Solved 223

Chapter 12: Ten Benefi cial Tools and Aids to Have 229

Chapter 13: Ten Ways to Get Really Fancy 237

Index 245

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