Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies 1st Edition
Author(s): Bonnie Jo Manion (Author)
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 21 Jun. 2013
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 296 pages
ISBN-10: 9781118547540
ISBN-13: 1118547543
Book Description
Maintain a beautiful garden with chickens? Easy.
Chickens are great gardening assistants, with lots of benefits for a home garden and landscape―from soil-building to managing pests and weeds. Home gardens can be great chicken habitats if designed well, and Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies 1st Edition provides a plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating a gorgeous chicken-friendly landscape that helps the chickens and the garden thrive.
Gardening with Free-Range Chicken For Dummies offers guidance and step-by-step instructions for designing and implementing a host of different chicken garden plans. Plus, you’ll get detailed information on the best plants and landscaping materials for your chicken garden (and the ones to avoid), seasonal considerations, attractive fencing options, predator and pest control, and much more.
An excellent supplement to Raising Chickens For Dummies and Building Chicken Coops For Dummies
A plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating a chicken garden
Advice on how to manage chickens while maintaining a beautiful garden
If you’re looking for step-by-step advice on building a chicken garden, Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies 1st Edition has you covered.
Editorial Reviews
From the Inside Flap
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 1st Edition 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
From the Back Cover
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 1st Edition 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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