Storey’s Guide To Raising Chickens
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- FTC-PEP · 2026-27
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- step-up-ftc-pep-2026-27 · v1.0.1
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- Review due · Low
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Product description
<em>Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens</em> (4th Edition) is your complete handbook for raising a thriving, healthy flock from day one. Whether you’re collecting fresh eggs for the family, showing your birds at fairs, or raising chickens for meat, this go-to resource covers everything you need to know — from choosing the right breeds and building secure coops to feeding, watering, hatching, and protecting your birds from disease and predators. <br><br>Get new insights on biosecurity, organic practices, natural health care, and humane management, along with detailed charts, checklists, and full-color photographs to guide you every step of the way. <br><br>Physical Book<br><br><b>What You’ll Learn</b><br><br><ul><li><b>Choosing a breed:</b> selecting purebred vs. hybrid, evaluating birds, getting started</li><li><b>Flock behavior:</b> peck order, communication, and practical handling</li><li><b>Shelter & housing:</b> free-range, fenced range, portable vs. permanent coops, fencing</li><li><b>Feed & water:</b> feed types, routines, storage, watering essentials</li><li><b>Routine management:</b> predator protection, weather care, sanitation, manure handling</li><li><b>Health care:</b> biosecurity, parasites, disease resistance, first aid and hazards</li><li><b>Laying-hen management:</b> egg formation, nutrition, lighting, solving egg issues, flock replacement, egg sales</li><li><b>Eggs for eating:</b> collection, quality, safety, nutrition, and preserving eggs</li><li><b>Breeding & genetics:</b> breeder nutrition, mating, artificial insemination, selection & culling & more</li><li><b>Incubation & brooding:</b> natural and artificial incubation, candling, hatching, brooder setup, chick care</li><li><b>Showing birds:</b> rules, conditioning, coop training, master exhibitor tips</li><li><b>Meat birds & processing:</b> breeds, feeding and management, readiness, humane butchering, sanitation, storage</li></ul>
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- FESUA_DailySkillBuilding
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- Step Up For Students
- Applies to
- FTC-PEP · 2026-27
- Effective dates
- Jul 1, 2026 — Jun 30, 2027
- Source last modified
- Jul 14, 2026
- Reviewed by Navigator
- Jul 23, 2026
- Review due
- Aug 14, 2026
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