Raising Chickens for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Breeds, Housing, Facilities, Feeding, Health Care, Breeding, Eggs, and Meat

I think this is a really good, comprehensive chicken book. I kept chickens a few years ago and want to do it again now that I am moving house. This gave me more than enough information. I love the glossary of terms ... it is so useful and really interesting having the reference to symptoms for disease and parasites. This book will definitely stay on my shelf. Thank you. I am very happy.

Great book easy to understand perfect thank you will shop again

Nice little book, very informative

This book got me thinking a new way about chickens. If I had a farm I would definitely use this as a book as a guide what I find interesting is how many different breeds of chickens there are.

Not as informative as I would have liked. No pictures. A bit like reading someone’s college project. Ok if you want surface information.

As a child I grew up on a smallholding and having moved back to the countryside, I have been pondering about keeping a few chickens for their eggs. This book has been very informative, slightly Americanised, but on the whole very useful. Recommended.

This book is crammed with up-to-date information on how to keep chickens. The author is speaking from a place of solid experience, and has clearly researched all areas to give a complete guide, whether you would like to keep chickens for eggs, meat or purely as pets. His enthusiasm for keeping these birds comes through in the text, which is refreshing in a non-fiction book. Subjects are divided up into easily digestible chapters from choosing which breed would be best for your needs, right through to associated care costs. As a keen gardener, I particularly liked the inclusion of chapter ten, which covers the additional benefits of keeping chickens such as for pest control, tilling veg beds, eating bugs and producing free fertilizer for your plants. I can’t imagine any reader not feeling enthused at the prospect of keeping chickens, as I do, after reading this great book.

Well-written, well-organized, clear and interesting. This book gives great direction on starting a small chicken operation. I was particularly interested in the sections on key questions to ask, wonderful full-color pictures of the different breeds, different types of illnesses to be on guard against, the social hierarchy of chickens, and properly putting chickens to work in one’s garden! The author also properly instructs beginners on how to follow all local laws plus stay friends with one’s neighbors! All-in-all, this is a great “how-to” book for having fun keeping healthy chickens. Highly recommended!

Bought this book because my husband used to spend his summers on a farm where he collected eggs. He had a lot of fun. Raising chickens sounded like fun and a lot of work, I wanted to find out all that I could. My cat died and he said no more cats. Thought if I wanted to raise chickens in our back yard, he might relent on a cat.

I enjoy reading any books about chickens and I am happy with this purchase. Lots of information which will be really useful. Well laid out and lots of excellent photographs.

I found the book informative and detailed. Very happy with it. Looking forward to reading Max’s new book about raised gardens as I am also interested in creating a garden on my new property. Thanks again Max!

This was a great read told me a lot. I didn’t know about chickens and raising them. Worth it if you’re thinking about getting chickens.