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Andy Schneider, better known as the Chicken Whisperer, has become the go-to guy for anything chickens. Over the years, he has helped a countless number of people start their very own backyard flocks. He is not only a well-known radio personality, as host of the Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer radio show, but also the author of the books The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens, Chicken Fact or Chicken Poop, and The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Zero Waste Chicken Keeping and a contributor for Mother Earth News, Grit magazine, and Farmers’ Almanac. He is the national spokesperson for the USDA-APHIS Bio-Security for Birds Program and the Founder/Organizer of the Atlanta Backyard Poultry Meetup Group and many other Meetup Groups around the United States. He has been featured on CNN, HLN, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and NPR, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, The Economist, USA Today, New Life Journal, and other local and national publications. Andy has also been traveling around the US on the Chicken Whisperer Tour, educating people about the many benefits of keeping a small backyard flock of chickens. Andy and his wife Jen keep 35 chickens on their property just north of Atlanta, Georgia. Visit him online at chickenwhisperer.com. 1 POWER TO THE POULTRY: THE GROWING URBAN CHICKEN MOVEMENT 2 HENOLOGY: KNOW THY HEN FOR SHE IS GREAT 3 BACKYARD OUTLAWS: ARE CHICKENS ALLOWED WHERE YOU LIVE? WHAT SHOULD YOU DO IF THEY AREN’T? 4 PREP WORK: GETTING YOUR HOME AND YARD READY 5 INCUBATION: SO YOU’RE EGG-SPECTING? 6 THE ART OF BROODING: PREPARING THE NURSERY FOR YOUR NEW ARRIVALS 7 HOME SWEET HOME: COOPS AND RUNS 8 SAFE AND SOUND: PROTECTING YOUR FLOCK FROM PREDATORS 9 NUTRITION: COMMON MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 10 ILLNESS AND AILMENTS: PREVENTION AND TREATMENT GLOSSARY RESOURCES PHOTOGRAPHER CREDITS ABOUT THE AUTHORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX
