Something to Cluck About: 101 Chicken Keeping Hacks to Keep Your Chickens Healthy & Happy
PORTLAND, Maine (PRWEB) September 27, 2018 -- Lisa Steele, chicken-keeper extraordinaire and founder of Fresh Eggs Daily has spent years figuring out the best ways to keep chickens healthy, the natural way, and she's collected more than just your average tips.
In her new book "101 Chicken Keeping Hacks", Lisa offers her sage advice for everything from healthy herbs for the flock, caring for chicks, decking out your hen house, tasty egg recipes – and that’s just scratching the surface. Her blog, website (http://www.fresheggsdaily.com), TV show and books will guide you every step of the way, turning novice chicken keepers into seasoned masters of the flock.
Here are some of the handy hacks you can find in this book:
- Feeding: Try homemade scratch, growing fodder, or frozen treats
- The Run: Make a chicken swing or DIY scarecrow
- Chicken Health: Find ideas for boredom busters, homemade salves and herbal teas
- The Coop: Keep it clean with a natural coop cleaner or make your own curtains and turn your chickens' coop into a mini-castle
- The Garden: Build an herb drying rack or brew a batch of chicken “tea”
More about Lisa Steele and Fresh Eggs Daily:
Lisa Steele isn’t a newcomer to raising chickens. She’s a proud 5th generation chicken keeper! Growing up across the street from her grandparents’ farm, she was raised seeing them care for their own chickens, using the meat and eggs in the family’s diner. Steele left her farming roots for a while, going to college, working on Wall Street, moving with her Navy husband. Eventually, she ended up back on a small farm where she reignited her own passion for raising her chickens and ducks and helped others do the same. She quickly became recognized as an eggs-cellent source of information and inspiration for the resurging chicken keeping movement.
A regular contributor to such publications as Backyard Poultry, Hobby Farm, and Chickens magazine, as well as HGTVGardens.com and BHG.com, Lisa has become the most trusted voice in natural chicken keeping. She has appeared on P. Allen Smith’s radio and television programs, various local programs, and is currently hosting her own "chicken lifestyle" television show on Maine's WPTX-TV. She is the author of Fresh Eggs Daily, Duck Eggs Daily, Gardening with Chickens, Let's Hatch Chicks!, and 101 Chicken Keeping Hacks. Lisa lives on a small farm near Portland, ME.
Jennifer Uy, ChicExecs Brand Development, http://www.fresheggsdaily.com, 619-961-8811, [email protected]
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