Backyard Poultry April/May 2011
Backyard Poultry
April/May 2011 • 6/2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• 7 Urban Chicken Myths
• Helpful Hints from Long-time Flock Keeper
• Coop Creations: Thinking Outside the Box
• Chick Care: Double-Duty Works! Turn a Food Dehydrator into an Incubator
• Choosing a Brooder
• Starting Chicks without Medication
• Selective Breeding Applied
• Breeding the Home Flock
• Book Excerpt: Chicken and Egg: A Memoir of Suburban Homesteading with 125 Recipes
• Book Excerpt: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide; Raising Chickens from Hatchlings to Laying Hens
• Retrieving the Auburn Java from Extinction
• Pigeon Love
• Hatching Time is Here: Incubation Hints for a Successful Hatch
• Talking Waterfowl with Metzer Farms
• Amoxicillin Treatment Saves Skin-Bloated Rooster
• The Art of Poultry: Poultry-Inspired Creations
• A Boy and His Chickens: Friendships Develop Through Poultry Keeping
• Lessons from the Coop: An “Able” Chicken Farmer
IN EACH ISSUE
• From The Editor
• Coming Events
• Reader Submitted Letters: Something To Crow About
• The Answer Man
• Family Album
• Backyard Poultry Bookstore
• Gertrude McCluck
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