Maintain a beautiful garden with chickens? Easy.
Chickens are great gardening assistants, with lots of benefits
for a home garden and landscape–from soil-building to
managing pests and weeds. Home gardens can be great chicken
habitats if designed well, and Gardening with Free-Range
Chickens For Dummies provides a plain-English guide with
step-by-step guidance for creating a gorgeous chicken-friendly
landscape that helps the chickens and the garden thrive.
Gardening with Free-Range Chicken For Dummies offers
guidance and step-by-step instructions for designing and
implementing a host of different chicken garden plans. Plus, you’ll
get detailed information on the best plants and landscaping
materials for your chicken garden (and the ones to avoid), seasonal
considerations, attractive fencing options, predator and pest
control, and much more.
* An excellent supplement to Raising Chickens For Dummies
and Building Chicken Coops For Dummies
* A plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating a
chicken garden
* Advice on how to manage chickens while maintaining a beautiful
garden
If you’re looking for step-by-step advice on building a chicken
garden, Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies has
you covered.
Table of Content
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Gardening and Chickens 7
Chapter 1: Joining Forces: Companion Gardening with Chickens
9
Chapter 2: Preparing Your Garden for Chickens 33
Chapter 3: Preparing Yourself and Your Family for Chickens
63
Chapter 4: Creating Your Space for Free-Range Chickens 83
Part II: Designing a Chicken-Friendly Garden
101
Chapter 5: Creating a Safe and Smart Garden Space: Landscape
Material Ideas 103
Chapter 6: From Garden to Pasture: Perfect Plantings for All
Your Needs 125
Chapter 7: Growing Good Eats for Chickens and People 147
Chapter 8: From Lawns to Poisonous Plants: Other Landscape
Considerations 165
Part III: Chicken Care: Tending to Your Flock 181
Chapter 9: Know Thy Flock: Understanding Chicken Behaviors
183
Chapter 10: Caring for Chickens: Predators, Sickness, Injury,
and Death 199
Part IV: The Part of Tens 221
Chapter 11: Ten Common Chicken Problems Solved 223
Chapter 12: Ten Benefi cial Tools and Aids to Have 229
Chapter 13: Ten Ways to Get Really Fancy 237
Index 245
About the author
Bonnie Jo Manion has been featured in national garden magazines with her gardens, organic practices, chickens, and designs. Follow Bonnie at Vintage Garden Gal.com. Rob Ludlow is the owner of Back Yard Chickens.com, a top source on chicken raising, and the coauthor of Raising Chickens For Dummies.
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