The Lyons Press
Spring - Summer 2002 Catalog, p. 41
Living with Chickens
Everything You Need to Know to Raise
Your Own Backyard Flock
by Jay Rossier, photographs by Geoff Hansen
Introduction by the American Poultry Association
The "Everyday Farmer" guide to raising chickens,
complete with full-color photographs
Chickens have long been a symbol of a good life in the country, and the idea of raising poultry is as popular as ever in today's busy world — whether for fun or for profit. Vermonter Jay Rossier gives any future chicken farmer the tools he needs to get started, from step-by-step instructions on building the coop to a brief background on chicken biology ("gizzard talk"); from hints on getting high-quality eggs from the hens, to methods for butchering. He draws on his own experiences and those of his fellow poultrymen in discussing how to keep marauders from the chicken coop, the benefits of homemade grain versus commercial, and how to live (and sleep) with a rooster in your midst. Personal anecdotes, interesting facts, and lush images of the birds and their landscape round out this comprehensive book.
Jay Rossier is co-author of A New Lease On Farmland, published by the E.F. Schumacher Society, and writes occasional book reviews for Northern Woodlands magazine. In addition to being a husband and parent, he reads, writes and looks after various fowls in Vershire, Vermont.
Geoff Hansen is a photographer and editor at New Hampshire's Valley News and author of My Life As a Dog: The Many Moods of Lucy. His work has appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. He lives in Tunbridge, Vermont, with his wife and daughter.
The American Poultry Association, founded in 1873 to help hold up the value of standard-breed poultry and pure breeding, supports sanctioned meets at countrywide poultry shows, and publishes a quarterly newsletter and annual yearbook.
Nature$24.95 Hardcover
$37.95 in Canada
256 pages
6 x 9
Color and Black-and-White Photographs
ISBN 1-58574-452-2
June
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