Keeping chickens isn’t just a common practice on homestead settings, it’s also taking the urban community by storm. Whether you’re raising a flock in the suburbs or on a small farm, the articles found in Community Chickens Guide to Backyard Chickens will help you learn to keep and maintain a flock of your own.

Keeping chickens is a wonderfully rewarding experience on the homestead or in your urban community. Whether you have 5 chicks or 500, the articles found in Community Chickens Guide to Backyard Chickens, 2nd Edition will provide you with valuable information to keep your flock safe, healthy, and thriving.

From choosing the perfect breed for your situation to making delicious recipes with your bounty of eggs, this guide will help you from start to finish. The special issue gives an inside look at all things related to flocks, as well as providing you the opportunity to explore topics such as raising healthy chicks, preparing for the winter months, protecting your flocks from outside predators, and more! No matter your skill level, you will want this resource for all your chicken-related questions.

Articles include:

• The Best Backyard Chicken Breeds for Kids
• Why Raise Heritage Livestock?
• Seven Safety Tips for Free-Ranging Chickens
• Treating and Preventing Lice on Chickens
• Affordable Ways to Keep Your Flock Warm
• And more!

There’s a lot more to keeping chickens than bringing them home and watching them grow up. As they grow from egg to mature hen or rooster, the information available for how to best take care of your flock is plentiful. The Community Chickens Guide to Backyard Chickens, 3rd Edition is the perfect place to start your research. You’ll learn how to prevent and treat sick chicks, what breeds thrive in certain climates, the proper care for baby chicks, tips for protecting your flock from predators, and more! Whether you’re a new flock owner or have been raising chickens for years, this special issue will set you up with the information you need to help your feathered friends stay healthy and thrive.

Get all the animal know-how, big or small, with our Backyard Animals Package from Grit! Whether you're thinking about keeping chickens in your backyard, breeding rabbits in a colony, or raising barnyard animals, this package has you covered. Our limited-time package includes three specially curated issues from Grit, including Guide to Barnyard Animals, Guide to Chickens, and Guide to Backyard Rabbits, 6th Edition.

Read about basic surviving skills, turkey hunting, whitetails, and more in the GRIT Country Skills Series Guide to Hunting. Whether you’re a beginner or have been out hunting hundreds of times, this guide has helpful tips for a successful hunting season.

What came first the chicken or the egg? Although this issue won’t answer that age old question, the Grit Guide to Backyard Chickens, 10th Edition will answer most of your chicken related questions! No matter if you’ve had chickens for years or are only thinking about getting some, this special issue will have answers to your questions! Inside, you’ll learn how to choose the right chickens, feed your chickens a nutritional diet, get the best egg production out of your flock, and more!

Anyone, at any age, can enjoy the benefits and pleasures of keeping a backyard chicken flock. Whether you have yet to take the plunge and buy your very first chickens or are a seasoned chicken owner, the newest Guide to Backyard Chickens is an enjoyable read for everyone! This guide from Grit is 100 pages of articles written by chicken experts. It provides more than 65 keys to keeping a healthy, productive flock, plus recipes for eggs and chicken meat, DIY chicken coops, and information on owning guinea fowl, ducks and geese.

At 100 full-color pages, this one-of-a-kind reference book is designed to arm you with all the information needed to enjoy the simple country pleasures of farm-fresh eggs and poultry, straight from your own backyard.

GRIT's Guide to Backyard Chickens

includes an extensive collection of relevant articles, including: • Keep Chickens Comfortable in All Temperatures
• Best Chicken Breeds
• Egg and Chicken Recipe
• Free-Range Flocks
• DIY Coops
• Explore the Entertaining Behavior of Your Flock
• Learn More from the Experts Who Blog for GRIT
• Taking Precautions – Recent outbreaks of salmonella highlight the need to care when tending a backyard flock
• Eggs, Eggs, and More Eggs! Once your flock has started laying eggs, what do you do with all the extras?
• Fermentations for the Flock – Improve your poultry’s health while saving money at the feed store

Raising rabbits has never been easier with the help the new Grit Guide to Backyard Rabbits, 4th edition. This guide has more than 43 keys to raising happy, healthy rabbits along with helpful advice to find the breed for you, instructions for keeping rabbits out of your garden, advice on how to build the best hutches and equipment, and so much more.

Read about the necessary tools, equipment and routines it requires to keep healthy rabbits. Discover the basic bunny diet, and how feeding your rabbits a healthy mixture of pellets, hay and a few treats will keep them happy and strong. Learn how to ban bunnies from your garden by building a safe, simple and humane trap to keep uninvited critters out of your garden. Rabbit housing plans are included for a good weekend do-it-yourself project.

Other articles include:

• An Introduction to Rabbit Breeds: Ask yourself why raising bunnies is a priority, and then consider the many beautiful and cuddly, exotic and common varieties.
• Rabbits as Food: When the first cute and cuddly kit arrived, worry set in about processing day.
• The Rabbit House: If you’re more of a hands-off animal husband, keeping rabbits together in a colony – rather than in individual cages – may appeal to you.
• Permaculture Principles for Rabbits: A couple of rabbit aficionados contemplate ways to keep rabbits in captivity, though in a more natural setting.
• Calming the Rascally Rabbit: Discover the many activities you and your furry friends can do together for a healthier, more enjoyable experience.