Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks (Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl) Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you'll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success. From the Back Cover: From Fertilised Egg to Baby Chick and Beyond Whether you're an experienced poultry owner or an intrigued beginner, chicken expert Gail Damerow offers everything you need to know about acquiring and brooding hatchlings and what to expect from your young charges as they grow. When you've gained experience brooding and are eager for the next challenge, Damerow goes on to explain every step of the hatching process. If you want your chickens to do the work for you, the chapter on broody hens will prepare you for their exceptional care and feeding needs. If you choose to incubate the eggs, complete coverage of selecting and operating an incubator, as well as understanding the structure and development of an egg, will give you the confidence to act as a mother hen yourself. Hatching and brooding information on turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl is also featured. Product details: Publisher: Storey Publishing (15 January 2013) Language: English Paperback: 240 pages ISBN-10 : 97816121201400 Dimensions : 21.59 x 1.42 x 27.64 cm About the Author: Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including What's Killing My Chickens? and the best-selling Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com
