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Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl Paperback – January 15, 2013

by Gail Damerow (Author)
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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.
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Once a chicken fancier has decided to raise birds for home or commercial markets, a choice arises between buying the chicks or breeding and hatching them oneself. Damerow draws on her own experience for this comprehensive and accessible guide to all matters incubatory. With lots of photographs and plenty of practical data, she outlines parameters for heat, light, feed, and water sources so critical to chicks’ nutrition and growth. She also discusses the hatching process and the diseases that can appear in even the best-managed hatcheries. She explains the mysterious method for determining the little birds’ sex and how to assess their health from body language. Damerow’s guidance embraces not just chickens but also turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl. Burgeoning interest in locavorism and in humane animal breeding make this a potentially useful addition for library collections in just about all communities, not just for traditional rural institutions. --Mark Knoblauch

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"This know-all chicken manual could serve as a college textbook”



“Gail Damerow continues to educate, entertain, and astound us with her detailed coverage of all-things-chicken, this time with seldom-encountered facts and tips on hatching and brooding. ... Add this one to the already long list of Gail Damerow books that belong in every poultry lover’s library.”



“Background information, illustrations, and thorough instructions abound throughout this thoughtfully organized work. In addition to sections devoted to the selection, care, feeding, and development of eggs and chicks, this guide features a glossary and a comprehensive index. … for those seeking reliable instructions on brooding and hatching a variety of fowl, the book is outstanding.”

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1612120148
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Storey Publishing, LLC (January 15, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781612120140
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1612120140
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.65 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.63 x 11 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 652 ratings

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Gail Damerow and her husband operate a family farm in Tennessee where they keep poultry and dairy goats, tend a sizable garden, and maintain a small orchard. They grow and preserve much of their own food, make their own yogurt and ice cream, and bake their own bread. Gail has written extensively on raising livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural skills. She shares her experience and knowledge as a contributor to several periodicals, as the principal author or contributor to numerous country skills how-to books, and on her blog at gaildamerow.com.

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Awesome book for the new (or old) chicken owner!
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Awesome book for the new (or old) chicken owner!
So much good information. We checked this book out from the library with a number of others, but we kept coming back to this book for the information we needed. We liked the book so much, that we decided to buy it. Helped us with understanding chicken terms and definitions that we were unfamiliar with. Showed nice illustrations of the Chicken Life cycle. Very good info for a chicken owner or even one who is learning about chickens for their school project.
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Meg
5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2024
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Was planning to hatch for the first time to see if it was all it was cracked up to be. This was very informative and easy to follow. Felt prepared to try, and our hatch was successful. Love these books thanks for yet another great one.
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John H
5.0 out of 5 stars A bible on raising chicks
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2014
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I have read this book cover to cover twice. Extremely good material on the how(s) and why(s) of raising chickens from eggs or from chicks.

There is a wealth of information in this book. There is both a high level overview and a detailed view on almost any topic that I can think of.

I have eight chickens that lay about 35 eggs per week. I plan to increase my flock to 32 chickens now. I have purchased a number of books on Amazon regarding chickens and I put this book high on the list of "should have books". Another equally good book is "The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens". If you only bought these two books you would be very comfortable feeding your family with the eggs from your own garden.

Update 8/11/14.

I did not purchase new chickens to get to my goal of 32. Instead three of my hens provided baby chicks for the rest. I now have 12 adults (4 donations) and 20 chicks. This book was very helpful as I researched what to do for the new "peeps".

The three hens hatched 23 chicks. Three died. This book helped me understand what to do and what not to do (and understand why we cannot do it all). One died in a half shell in the water container face down (even though this was for watering chicks). One was injured falling out of the nest (about 4 feet). I spent five days with a pen, heat lamps, hand feeding water) trying to save this one. The last one died having never been able to leave the shell (half out). In each case this book helped me understand what to do (sometimes telling me to wait it out). Nature can be cruel but knowledge can make us kind.

Great book that I turn to every day as they grow. Amazing to watch the little ones run behind their mother as I bring out some "treats" for them. Grapes, mealworms, corn on the cob (from my garden), etc. If you like to care for animals, chickens are a lot of fun and this book helps understand what to do. 5 stars plus.
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D. E. R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource on Raising Chicks
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2013
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This book is very informative, containing information for the beginner with their first incubator to the experienced breeder. It includes "technical" information I could not find in other resources - For example, egg development, health issues of new hatchlings and causes of death or deformation, chick diseases and normal growth/development; deficiencies in your hens and potential negative outcomes to the chicks...to name just a few. I have read it cover to cover and keep going back to it to answer many questions. It is well written and easy to understand with many tables, charts, and pictures. Excellect resource. A must have for the serious breeder. For those who want to know more about raising and managing chickens throughout all life stages, I recommend Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens.
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Kchr123
4.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2020
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I like that this book is broken into two parts. One for raising chickens the other for incubating eggs. This is also a good book for understanding the mechanics of chickens, parts of the egg, different incubators and their uses functions etc. I really like how she gives you two perspectives of doing things modern as well as old fashioned... which may be helpful to someone on a budget or just likes to do things DIY style. Only thing I didn’t like about it is it was kind of wordy with explaining some pretty general topics.
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Robert Burger
5.0 out of 5 stars Good information
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2024
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Gifted this to my daughter
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leslieg
5.0 out of 5 stars Great information!
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2023
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This book has helped me successfully hatch and raise chicks and poults. Great illustrations, diagrams and pictures. I’ve recommended it to many people.
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DorothyK
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, saved my goslings
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2023
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My two goslings went lame and going through this book helped me figure out what was wrong and make a plan to fix it. The chick feed I was using was deficient for the goslings and I was able to suppliment and one gosling is perfectly fine now, and the other is back to only dealing with a deformed foot. Both are active and happy to be brooder moms to two chicks and a duckling.
Thank You 😁
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Sami Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book for the new (or old) chicken owner!
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2022
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So much good information. We checked this book out from the library with a number of others, but we kept coming back to this book for the information we needed. We liked the book so much, that we decided to buy it. Helped us with understanding chicken terms and definitions that we were unfamiliar with. Showed nice illustrations of the Chicken Life cycle. Very good info for a chicken owner or even one who is learning about chickens for their school project.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book for the new (or old) chicken owner!
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2022
So much good information. We checked this book out from the library with a number of others, but we kept coming back to this book for the information we needed. We liked the book so much, that we decided to buy it. Helped us with understanding chicken terms and definitions that we were unfamiliar with. Showed nice illustrations of the Chicken Life cycle. Very good info for a chicken owner or even one who is learning about chickens for their school project.
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Amanda Lynne Lawrence
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Resource!
Reviewed in Canada on November 17, 2022
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This book is well written, very informative and has excellent pictures. A great addition to an animal husbandry library. Full of excellent information for first timers or to have on hand as a reminder when things come up and you have forgotten that important little piece of information. Definately worth the price.
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wendy woolford
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Informimative book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2023
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A must if u are hatching fertilised eggs very please thank u
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Rizwan Khan
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent book :: must have
Reviewed in India on July 9, 2023
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excellent book :: must have
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5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you need to know
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2022
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Bonnie
5.0 out of 5 stars book
Reviewed in Canada on July 17, 2020
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I just got my book to day and it is a very good book. I will tell any body who is looking for a hatching book to buy thus one it is very helpful. Thank you.
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