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Raising Chickens For Dummies®
By: Kimberly Willis , Rob LudloweBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Practical how-to advice for raising chickens in virtually any backyard!
Raising chickens on a small scale is a popular–and growing–pastime. And Raising Chickens For Dummies provides an up-to-date, thorough introduction to all aspects of caring for chickens, including choosing and purchasing chickens, constructing housing, and proper feeding. Raising Chickens For Dummies provides authoritative, detailed information to make raising chickens for eggs, meat, or backyard entertainment that much easier.
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| Title of eBook: Raising Chickens For Dummies® | |
| Release Date: 07-14-2009 | |
| Publisher: For Dummies |
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Raising Chickens For Dummies®
Chapter One
The Joy of Chickens
In This Chapter
* Checking on local legal restrictions for chicken-keeping
* Considering the commitments you need to make
* Counting the costs
* Being mindful of your neighbors
We love chickens and we hope you're reading this book because you love chickens, too. So we're going to discuss a very basic issue in this chapter: whether you should actually keep chickens. Chickens make colorful, moving lawn ornaments, and they can even furnish your breakfast. But they do take some attention, some expense, and some good information to care for properly.
So consider this chapter as chicken family planning. If you read the information in this chapter and still believe you're ready to start your chicken family, then you have the whole rest of the book to get all the information you need to begin the adventure.
First Things First: Dealing with the Legal Issues
You may be surprised one day to notice chickens in your suburban neighborhood. Many urban and suburban communities are bowing to public pressure and allowing chicken-keeping. But not every community is so enlightened. The person keeping chickens in your neighborhood may be flouting the law. So before you rush out and buy some chickens, too, check whether there are any laws preventing you from legally keeping chickens.
Almost all property is classified into zoning areas (in some very undeveloped areas, there may be no zoning). Each type of zoning has laws that state what can and cannot be done to property in that zone. This is a way to regulate growth of a community and keep property use in an
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