Resources

Nasco’s Chicken Embryology Poster Set

Use real photos to show the development of a chick embryo. Set of 3 posters may be used separately or joined together. The first poster shows days 0-6, the second poster shows days 12-21, and the third poster shows day 21. Each individual poster... More.

Storey’s Guide to Raising Poultry

By Leonard Mercia. 75 illustrations. 352 pages, 6" x 9". Softcover. Covers stock selection, feeding, brooding, rearing, management, current disease prevention, and treatment for laying flock, meat chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese. Cop... More.

Sexing All Fowl, Baby Chicks, Game Birds, Cage Birds

By Loyl Stromberg. 96 pages, 6" x 9". Softcover. Well-illustrated with authoritative sexing information on chicks, quail, pheasants, partridge, grouse, pigeons, ostrich, parrots, and other caged birds. Copyright 1977 (revised 2002). More.

A Guide to Better Hatching

By Janet Stromberg. 100 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Softcover. An exclusive book, the only one published on this subject. Has information that will definitely make improving your hatches possible. Copyright 1975. More.

The Chicken Health Handbook

By Gail Damerow. 352 pages, 6" x 9". Softcover. Covers the problems and diseases common to chickens of all breeds and all ages. Practical charts help pinpoint common symptoms and causes of disease. An extensive alphabetical listing of di... More.

Poultry at Home – VHS

A beginner’s guide to poultry health and management using over 50 pure breeds to illustrate various points including choosing your breed, housing, handling, predators, food and digestion, diseases and parasites, breeding, sexing, candling eggs, an... More.

Poultry of the World

By Loyl Stromberg. 397 pages, 6" x 9". Hardcover. A comprehensive history and guide to poultry around the world. Features 556 photographs, 410 in full color. Also provides a list of poultry organizations and relates many interesting poul... More.

Pocketful of Poultry

By Carol Ekarius. 272 pages, 6" x 4-1/4". Softcover. Pecking, clucking, posing, preening. Whatever they happen to be doing, barnyard birds have a special knack for making us smile. Enjoy their charm and discover interesting facts abo... More.

Living with Chickens: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Flock

By Jay Rossier. 256 pages, 6" x 9". Softcover. Gives any future chicken farmer the tools needed to get started, from step-by-step instructions on building the coop, to a brief background on chicken biology. The author draws on hi... More.

Hobby Farms™: Ducks

By Cherie Langlois. 160 pages, 6" x 9". Softcover. All the information a hobby farmer needs to get started raising ducks is right here. The easy-care nature of ducks allows for a part-time farmer to reap a bounty in meat and eggs,... More.