Ethicurean Article - Chicken expert Gail Damerow answers newbie questions

By Bonnie Azab Powell
June 30, 2010

"If [chickens] are the Boston terriers of their decade, then Gail Damerow is poultry's Cesar Millan. In the last 40 years, she's raised dozens of different breeds and written Barnyard in Your Backyard and several other animal-care handbooks. But she's best known for Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 3rd Edition, now in its third edition. It's the primer for all things chicken: from training your birds (yes, you can, although they probably won't fetch for you) to keeping predators at bay to designing and building your own backyard coop. Gail graciously consented to answer my poultry-newbie questions by phone and email from her farm in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland...."

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