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9 reviews for:
The Joy of Keeping Chickens: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit
Jennifer Megyesi, Geoff Hansen
3.54 AVERAGE
9 reviews for:
The Joy of Keeping Chickens: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit
Jennifer Megyesi, Geoff Hansen
3.54 AVERAGE
Lots of gorgeous photos, good stories, but not as practicaly helpful as Living with Chickens. Sometimes downright confusing.
Due to my spouse's illness, I spent my New Year's Eve reading this book and playing Farmville on my facebook account (don't judge, it's the closest I can get to a real farm for a few more months). The gorgeous photography in this book made me want to love it. Alas, I did not.
The information was a little to glib and too shallow for my needs. I feel that is pushed too deeply for the casual reader, focusing briefly on technicalities rather than why one should raise chickens, yet it did not push deep enough for a serious want-to-be farmer such as myself. The subtitle hails this book as an "Ultimate Guide." After reading "Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens," I found this to be a serious exaggeration.
The information was a little to glib and too shallow for my needs. I feel that is pushed too deeply for the casual reader, focusing briefly on technicalities rather than why one should raise chickens, yet it did not push deep enough for a serious want-to-be farmer such as myself. The subtitle hails this book as an "Ultimate Guide." After reading "Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens," I found this to be a serious exaggeration.
informative
fast-paced
As a reference book, it's fine. It has lots of good information. But it doesn't work as a read through book. The stories were so irrelevant and pointless. The formatting/layout was awful. At one point a sentence start on one page and ends four pages later with pointless stories and info not relating to the sentence in between. The blurbs under the pictures added nothing. There were editing mistakes (in a second edition!). And it's just so repetitive.
TLDR: good for picking out needed information on raising chickens, but won't be reading again.
TLDR: good for picking out needed information on raising chickens, but won't be reading again.
I skipped all of the personal anecdotes and just read the content I needed. Very helpful and did enjoy the voice of the writer.
inspiring
slow-paced
informative
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal cruelty
I am really enjoying this. I got it with some others to look up again some tips for the chickens, particularly about a new coop and introducing new to old. But once I had solved those problems, I decided to go ahead and read the whole thing. I mostly skimmed the parts about meat birds, since we aren't doing that. I found some of the egg stuff interesting, like about how long they can be stored, as well as recipes, like for pickling eggs.
Pros:
*Fun
*Pretty
*Very readable
*Offers most of the basic information a backyard chicken keeper needs to know
Cons:
*Doesn't go into much detail
*Title is a bit misleading, it's not the ultimate guide for either fun or profit, although it definitely leans towards the "fun" side
*Fun
*Pretty
*Very readable
*Offers most of the basic information a backyard chicken keeper needs to know
Cons:
*Doesn't go into much detail
*Title is a bit misleading, it's not the ultimate guide for either fun or profit, although it definitely leans towards the "fun" side
funny
informative
medium-paced