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Christine Heinrichs is an award-winning journalist who focuses on chickens and sustainable living. She enjoys working with backyard flock owners, zoos, museums and living history farms.

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Not the book you want

This is an update of a book originally published for Future Farmers of America (now the National FFA Organization) in 2007. I don't have a copy of the first edition but I suspect that if I did I would find that outside of the new (and poorly written) introduction, the update consists mostly of inserting textboxes containing various factoids and an attempt to incorporate backyard chickens into what had been a book for young farmers.

While there is no doubt that this book contains lots of information in it's 200+ pages, I found the choppy writing and disorganized presentation too unpleasant to dive in very far. The list of breeds is far too long and scrambled to give much practical information. Even more information on breeds is scattered in text boxes in other sections, e.g. which breeds are considered to be "broody", which do best in colder climates, and elsewhere.

The book is divided into large sections with subsections running right after each other without much rhyme or reason. For example the subheading "Getting Started" (which is about where to buy your stock) follows without a break directly after the many pages listing breeds. Any differences in font size for these subsections are not visible in this ARC.

Layout choices make the text even more confusing. I found the order of presentation illogical. For example, there are segments on antibiotics in feed presented in at least 4 locations. The antibiotic information is not clearly presented either and will leave the reader confused and unable to decide whether to use antibiotics or not. Organic production, which is not feasible for all situations, but is well within the scope of backyard operations, is presented as potentially dangerous to birds and humans.

The sections on coops, housing, and feeds are grossly inadequate. There are weird, outdated bits on genetics tossed in.

There are many, much better chicken rearing books available.

I received a review copy of "How to Raise Chickens: Everything You Need to Know, Updated & Revised Third Edition" by Christine Heinrichs (Quarto – Voyageur) through NetGalley.com.
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Dokfintong | Apr 21, 2019 |

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