101 Chicken Keeping Hacks from Fresh Eggs Daily: Tips, Tricks, and Ideas for You and Your Hens

Spoil your chickens and beautify your coop with 101 Chicken Keeping Hacks from Fresh Eggs Daily.

Join Lisa Steele, chicken-keeper extraordinaire and founder of Fresh Eggs Daily, on a behind-the-coop tour like you've never seen. Lisa 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.

101 Chicken Keeping Hacks from Fresh Eggs Daily includes simple ideas for re-using and upcycling old items, as well as detailed information on using natural ingredients to enhance and improve your chickens' lives without breaking the bank.

This guide includes these handy ideas and much more:

• 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 and make your own coop curtains
• The Garden: Build an herb drying rack or brew a batch of chicken poop "tea"

So what are you waiting for? Make your chickens the happiest birds on the block!

I was extremely happy to find several different recipes for making your own chicken feed, scratch mixes, sprouted grains, fermented feed, and more-- Under A Tin Roof

Lisa Steele is a fifth-generation chicken keeper and creator of Fresh Eggs Daily, the go-to online resource for poultry-keeping advice, which has been named one of Better Homes & Gardens Top Ten Gardening Blogs. Lisa has amassed an audience of nearly one million from all over the globe, who look to her for tips on raising backyard chickens naturally, do-it-yourself ideas, and coop-to-kitchen recipes.

Dubbed "queen of the coop" by the media, Lisa and her work have been recognized by many national media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Country Woman, Parade, and others. As a television and radio personality, Lisa has appeared on the Hallmark Channel's Home & Family, Martha Knows Best on HGTV, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, and NPR's Maine Calling. She has hosted the New England regional Emmy-nominated television show Welcome to My Farm for two seasons.

Lisa's first book was recommended for summer reading on The View in 2018, and her popular books have sold more than 125,000 copies. Lisa lives in the woods of Maine with her husband, their corgi, barn cat, and her "girls"--a mixed flock of about thirty chickens, ducks, and geese.

Voyageur Press

Pub Date: October 9, 2018

0.6" H x 9.5" L x 7.3" W 

176 pages

Paperback