Chicken Keeping Books

[LisaOnVineyard]

Good morning! Newbie here
I have found a few very popular chicken keeper authors online and I’m wondering what you experienced people have found to be the more useful books? I do get the feeling that just like raising children with lots of advice out there - the same can apply to what each person feels is best for raising chickens....so many books and blogs Lol. but I’m looking to purchase a couple books that would be an easy go-to for unforeseen problems.
All suggestions welcome! what are your favorites?

 

[Perris]

If you give us an idea of how many and what sort of chickens you've got, and how you manage them, those of us who follow the same sort of pattern would be able to advise what we've found that suits. The variety is extensive, from a sort of copying commercial operations but on a small scale, with chickens bred for that sort of life, at one end of the spectrum, through old fashioned free ranging, with chickens suited to that sort of life, to a small coop in an urban garden, at the other.

 

[LisaOnVineyard]

Thank you Perris. Our first 5 chicks will be arriving in May. Small coop urban garden is correct. 2 white Cochins, 2 Orpingtons, and 1 Dominique. Our climate is temperate also. Northern California.

 

[LisaOnVineyard]

Also, a good size coop with run and they also will have some free range each day as well.

 

[LisaOnVineyard]

Keep adding on....these chicks are for eggs.

 

[Perris]

OK; I can't help you there with specific book recommendations as I follow a different route, but if you include all the crucial terms in a search (small flock, urban, egg-layers, N California), I think you'll get a much shorter and more relevant list of books than you did before, one that will suit your circumstances better.

And hopefully someone else who keeps chickens that way will chime in here too!
Good luck with your birds when you get them