Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies

Learn to:

• Create a gorgeous chicken- friendly landscape
• Raise plants beneficial to you and your chickens
• Manage pests and predators

Maintain a beautiful garden with chickens

Chickens are great gardening assistants, with lots of benefits for a home garden and landscape — from soil-building to managing pests and weeds. Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies provides step-by-step guidance for creating a gorgeous chicken-friendly landscape that helps the chickens and the garden thrive.

• Get started — grasp the concept of gardening with chickens, understand how the two complement one another, and get your yard and family ready to welcome home your free-ranging flock
• How does your garden grow? — get a grip on designing a chicken-friendly garden, from softscape and hardscape materials and garden structures to growing an edible landscape for you and your chickens
• Manage your flock — discover everything you need to know about chicken behavior and training, how to handle changes in a flock, and ways to deal with predators, disease, parasites, old age, and death

Open the book and find:

• The benefits of gardening with chickens
• Landscaping ideas and tips to use in your own garden
• The anatomy of a chicken coop
• How to create a layered plant landscape
• Popular edibles to grow
• Tips for training and managing your flock
• Ways to keep your flock safe from predators
• Common chicken diseases and parasites