The Backyard Chicken Year
A Season-by-Season Care Calendar for Healthy Hens and Steady Eggs, from Winter Cold to Summer Heat
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Why did the eggs stop? What do hens need in January, and in July? This book walks you through the whole chicken year, season by season.
Your flock changes with the calendar. Short days slow laying, fall brings the molt, winter brings frozen water and frostbite risk, and summer brings heat stress. The Backyard Chicken Year tells you what's normal in each season, what to watch for, and what to do about it.
- How the year shapes laying: day length, the molt and age, with a daylight chart for your latitude
- To light or not: an honest look at adding winter light, and how to do it safely if you choose to
- Winter: ventilation instead of insulation, preventing frostbite, keeping water liquid, and why heat lamps are risky
- Spring and summer: the clean-out, broody hens, predators, mites, and keeping hens cool in a heat wave
- Fall and the molt: what to feed, how to handle molting birds, and when eggs come back
- Eggs through the year: collecting, cleaning, storing and cooking them safely
- Older hens: what changes with age and how to plan your flock
- A month-by-month calendar, seasonal troubleshooting tables, and fill-in worksheets including an egg log
Every number is drawn from university extension, USDA and CDC guidance, with sources listed.
Written with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed in the book.
Seedlark Garden Guides is a Woguru imprint for practical, week-by-week home and garden handbooks. Every number is drawn from university extension research, with sources listed in each book.
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