Manion / Ludlow Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-61287-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Maintain a beautiful garden with chickens? Easy.
Chickens are great gardening assistants, with lots of benefitsfor a home garden and landscape--from soil-building tomanaging pests and weeds. Home gardens can be great chickenhabitats if designed well, and Gardening with Free-RangeChickens For Dummies provides a plain-English guide withstep-by-step guidance for creating a gorgeous chicken-friendlylandscape that helps the chickens and the garden thrive.
Gardening with Free-Range Chicken For Dummies offersguidance and step-by-step instructions for designing andimplementing a host of different chicken garden plans. Plus, you'llget detailed information on the best plants and landscapingmaterials for your chicken garden (and the ones to avoid), seasonalconsiderations, attractive fencing options, predator and pestcontrol, and much more.
* An excellent supplement to Raising Chickens For Dummiesand Building Chicken Coops For Dummies
* A plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating achicken garden
* Advice on how to manage chickens while maintaining a beautifulgarden
If you're looking for step-by-step advice on building a chickengarden, Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies hasyou covered.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manion, Bonnie Jo

Ludlow, Robert T.

Ludlow, Rob

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Gardening and Chickens 7
Chapter 1: Joining Forces: Companion Gardening with Chickens9
Chapter 2: Preparing Your Garden for Chickens 33
Chapter 3: Preparing Yourself and Your Family for Chickens63
Chapter 4: Creating Your Space for Free-Range Chickens 83
Part II: Designing a Chicken-Friendly Garden 101
Chapter 5: Creating a Safe and Smart Garden Space: LandscapeMaterial Ideas 103
Chapter 6: From Garden to Pasture: Perfect Plantings for AllYour Needs 125
Chapter 7: Growing Good Eats for Chickens and People 147
Chapter 8: From Lawns to Poisonous Plants: Other LandscapeConsiderations 165
Part III: Chicken Care: Tending to Your Flock 181
Chapter 9: Know Thy Flock: Understanding Chicken Behaviors183
Chapter 10: Caring for Chickens: Predators, Sickness, Injury,and Death 199
Part IV: The Part of Tens 221
Chapter 11: Ten Common Chicken Problems Solved 223
Chapter 12: Ten Benefi cial Tools and Aids to Have 229
Chapter 13: Ten Ways to Get Really Fancy 237
Index 245

Über Autor(innen)

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.