Books written by Gail Damerow

The Chicken Encyclopedia: An Illustrated Reference

To use Pearson's square, you need to know how much protein (to follow the example) you want to end up with and the protein content of both the existing ration and the supplement. To raise protein, choose a supplement that's higher in ...
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Edition: Breed Selection, Facilities, Feeding, Health Care, Managing Layers & Meat Birds

PEARSON'S SQUARE Using Pearson's square, you can determine how much ration and how much supplement to combine to get the desired protein content . SUPPLEMENT STATION MIXED GREENS MOVING A RANGE SHELTER FEEDERS This.
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 3rd Edition: Care, Feeding, Facilities

Pearson's square shows that we need to combine 1 pound (0.5 kg) of lay ration with 7 pounds (3.2 kg) of scratch to get a 9 percent cock maintenance ration. In the second example, 16 percent layer ration is combined with 31 percent cat ...
The Chicken Health Handbook, 2nd Edition: A Complete Guide to Maximizing Flock Health and Dealing with Disease

Using Pearson's square, you can determine how much ration and how much supplement to combine together to get the desired protein content. Fat-Soluble Vitamins DEFICIENCY SIGN Weakness, slow growth or emaciation, poor ...
Guide to Raising Chickens

Pearson's square shows that we need to combine 1 pound (0.5 kg) of lay ration with 7 pounds (3.2 kg) of scratch to get a 9 percent cock maintenance ration. In the second example, 16 percent layer ration is combined with 31 percent cat ...
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens

Using a method called Pearson's square, you can easily determine how much ration and how much supplement you must combine to get the protein content you want. Begin by drawing a square on a piece of paper. In the upper left corner, ...
The Chicken Health Handbook, 2nd Edition: A Complete Guide to Maximizing Flock Health and Dealing with Disease

Before backfilling the pit, cover everything with calcium hydroxide, sold at farm stores and builder supply outlets as hydrated lime, builder's lime, mason's lime, or slaked lime. Hydrated lime is an organic alkaline compound with low ...
Fences for Pasture & Garden

Cotton mason's line is available at lumberyards. Nyloncordsoldathardwarestoresstretches too much and unravels too easily unless you remember to touch the cut ends with a match. Stakes You will need lots of stakes for your preliminary ...
The Perfect Pumpkin: Growing/Cooking/Carving

Bax, Herman, 77, 79, 86,91 Beans, 55–56, 100 Beer, 183–85 Bees and pollination, 59,62, 95 Beetles, 56, 102–3, 113 Bellevue Berry and Pumpkin Ranch, 71 Beneficial creatures, 97,98 Berry, pumpkin as a, 9–10 Big Autumn, 15 Max, 16, ...
Grow Giant Pumpkins: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-187

Because 'Dill's Atlantic Giant'seeds are more difficult to sprout than those of other pumpkins, most serious growers start their seeds indoors or in a cold frame and move them outside when the soil is sufficiently warm. Herman Bax ...
Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl

With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of ...
The Perfect Pumpkin

Well, let me assure you that parsnips and tree chips aren't needed to make a perfectly nice pumpkin wine. In the early days, pumpkin liquor was brewed right in the shell. Anne Copeland MacCallum, student of anthropology and ...
The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals

Stuff homemade sausages with meat. Fill your omelet with tangy, creamy cheese. Stir sweet honey into tea or coffee. Fry a steak or bacon as a savory side. Top off your meal with a cold glass of milk.
Your Chickens: A Kid's Guide to Raising and Showing

This book tells you everything that you need to know about raising chickens, including information on choosing, purchasing, raising, and showing all types.
Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cows

The perfect book for anyone who has ever dreamed of having that little place in the country, Barnyard in Your Backyard offers tried-and-true, expert advice on raising healthy, happy, productive farm animals: chickens, geese, ducks, rabbits, ...
Draft Horses and Mules: Harnessing Equine Power for Farm & Show

Designed for new or intermediate owners, the book shows readers how to choose an ideal team, feed and house them, maintain their health, ensure effective equine-human communication, select and use equipment properly, and employ the animals ...
The Chicken Health Handbook

Generously illustrated, The Chicken Health Handbook teaches you how to: * hatch healthy chicks * provide proper nutrition * fight parasites * spot diseases and infections in their early stages * protect flocks from predators * build safe ...
What's Killing My Chickens?: The Poultry Predator Detective Manual

In this detective manual for the poultry owner, best-selling author and chicken expert Gail Damerow shows chicken keepers how to identify which predators are likely to be troubling their flock from the clues left behind, and offers proven ...
Fences for Pasture & Garden

From alarm systems to zoning laws, this book covers it all. If there's a fence in your future, don't waste time and money on an ineffective system. Make it one you can rely on by first reading Fences for Pasture & Garden.
Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl

With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of ...