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Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you've ever tasted. The answer is chickens--endearing birds that require but a modest outlay of time, space and food.

As they learned to raise chickens, Gail and Rick Luttmann came to realize the need for a comprehensive but…

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1 author picked Chickens In Your Backyard as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is a practical guide to raising a small flock of chickens in your backyard or on a small piece of land. The authors clearly loved their chickens and imbue them with all kinds of personalities and behaviors.

I loved this book because when I moved to the land, I had only vague memories of my grandfather raising chickens in Australia when I was six. I had no idea how to build a henhouse or manage a flock of chickens on my 5-acre piece of land. The authors also started from scratch, so I felt confident that if I…

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On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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