Weekend Homesteader: February by Wetknee Books
Escape the winter doldrums by expanding your homestead. Easy garden additions like strawberries and raspberries can provide delicious fruit for your family in a year or less. Add homegrown eggs from your new chicken flock and you'll have a feast. Meanwhile, buying non-perishables in bulk will save money while ensuring you have plenty of food during emergencies. Finally, an informal apprenticeship...

Weekend Homesteader: January by Wetknee Books
Are you dreaming of summer tomatoes and homegrown eggs? January is the perfect time to get next year's garden off to a good start by testing and improving your soil. Meanwhile, building a chicken coop or tractor will pave the way for bringing home some egg-laying friends next month. For more immediate gratification, learn the science behind bread-making and prepare emergency lighting systems so...

The Song of the Cardinal by General Books LLC $14.14
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: History / General;

A Chicken in Every Yard: The Urban Farm Store's Guide to Chicken Keeping by Ten Speed Press $19.99
Got a little space and a hankering for fresh eggs? Robert and Hannah Litt have dispensed advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers from behind their perch at Portland’s Urban Farm Store, and now they’re ready to help you go local and sustainable with your own backyard birds. In this handy guide to breeds, feed, coops, and care, the Litts take you under their experienced wings...

Extraordinary Chickens 2012 Wall Calendar by Abrams Calendars $13.99
Photographer Stephen Green-Armytage's ever-popular calendar has been one of Abrams' topselling calendars since 2003. This latest edition features more than 25 new portraits of the world's funniest and fanciest, fairest and freakiest, fowl.

Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Harper Perennial $13.99
"You be good. I love you," were Alex's final words to his owner, research scientist Irene Pepperberg, before his premature death at age thirty-one on September 6, 2007. An African Grey parrot, Alex had a brain the size of a shelled walnut, yet he could add, sound out words, understand concepts like bigger, smaller, more, fewer, and none, and he disproved the widely accepted idea that birds...

The Working Chicken by Wetknee Books $0.99
A short, sweet, and self-sufficient guide to keeping chickens as part of a rural or urban homestead. Learn everything you need to know to get started on your poultry adventure, with quick answers to frequently asked questions like:What kind of chickens should I get?Which color eggs are best? How many chickens should I get?Should I add a rooster to my flock?Where should I get my chickens? She's so...

Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock by Storey Publishing, LLC $19.95
Easy-to-care-for, productive, inexpensive, and full of personality, chickens are popping up in backyards throughout the country—in the suburbs, rural towns, and even on city plots. All it takes to keep a small flock is a bit of land and a properly designed coop.Just like houses, chicken coops come in all sizes and styles to meet the needs of any chicken family. Author Judy Pangman has combed...

The Joy of Keeping Chickens: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit (The Joy of Series) by Geoff Hansen $14.95
The most comprehensive full-color chicken book available.Finally backyard farmers who want to keep a few hens for eggs have a bible that's attractive enough to leave out on the coffee table, and inexpensive enough to purchase on a whim. This comprehensive guide, written in charming prose from the perspective of an organic farmer, will appeal to readers who are interested in raising...

City Chicks: Keeping Micro-Flocks of Chickens by Good Earth Publications, Inc. $9.99
There are lots of books on keeping chickens, but City Chicks is the only book to tell you how to use and employ chickens in your garden, to create garden and top soil, as clucking civic solid waste management worker and much more.Urban chickens are in and chickens have become the mascot of the local food movement. But how to take care of them and employ their skill sets? Read City Chicks: Keeping...