Fresh Eggs Daily: Raising Happy, Healthy Chickens...Naturally

I LOVED this little book! She gives you all kinds of tips and recipes to raise natural healthy hens. The format is simple and easy to read. It's not boring. And there's nothing in this book that you won't use! She trimmed the fat on the amount of information you'll need to keep chickens.

Wonderful book for chicken owners! I have been reading Lisa's blog for a few years and have incorporated so many of her tips and ideas into raising my backyard flock of chickens. Our daughter is raising chickens for an FFA project for high school and wanted to have beautiful, healthy eggs to sell to friends and family. I knew we needed this book. I love the way the book is set in sections of the places and reasons why you would use herbs. The pictures are real pictures from Lisa's home, not some Photoshop, staged shots that I have seen in other books. These give a realistic example for your own backyard. I purchased the Kindle version, and I am so happy I did so. I know I could take a "real' book to the store, but having it on my phone made shopping for herbs a breeze! My daughter would use the glossary in the back that lists the "Health Benefits of Common Herbs, Weeds and Flowers" and we would walk up and down the isles of our local nursery looking for herbs to aid in egg laying and egg quality. Being able to use the search feature on the phone made searching for a single mention of a plant so easy. This book also has recipes for chicken treats. They range from easy, like making ice cubes with herbs to float in the water, to more involved like homemade suet. Fresh Eggs Daily is a MUST for every chicken owner whether you have a huge flock out in the country, or four backyard feathered ladies like us.

I have been a backyard chicken keeper for almost 5 years now! Prior to actually getting my chickens, I read, read, read everything I could get my hands on that had to do with keeping and raising chickens and found myself continually returning to the egg-stensive knowledge base of the Fresh Eggs Daily blog by Lisa Steele. Now, she puts all that great knowledge together in her EGG-straordinary book- Fresh Eggs Daily: Raising Happy Healthy Chickens...Naturally! Her great passion for chicken keeping comes shining through in her delightful conversational tone. Lisa not only helps us to raise our feathery friends as nature intended, but shares her vast knowledge of herbs, plants, flowers, and seeds as a go to source for preventing illness and treating any health issues that may pop up. Lisa is a gifted writer and passionate backyard chicken keeper who wants all who seek her advice to have the absolute BEST egg-sperience possible as they raise and keep these wonderful feathery little creatures! This book is for anyone who is considering raising chickens or who already has a backyard flock and wants to be proactive in tending them in the most natural way possible. This EGG-cellent resource takes Lisa's generation's old egg-spertise one step further by organizing the chapters in such "an easy to refer to" style that even a novice chicken keeper can easily find the egg-act advice for the situation at hand. Individual chapters suggest natural ways to keep the chicken coop,nesting boxes, and run cleaner and smelling scent-sational, natural ways to provide your bathing beauties with an EGG-straordinary dust bath egg-sperience , natural help when they are molting or broody, natural ways to supplement their feed and water, special chapters addressing the special needs of hot steamy summers and cold blustery winters, naturally assisting the wee chicks growth and development while residing in the brooder, and natural help for when something just isn't right! Add to this, an egg-stensive appendix of safe-to-eat weeds and flowers and a list of all of the awesome health benefits of some of the most common herbs, weeds, and flowers and wait for it...all alphabetized!!! I say Kudos to you-dos, Lisa for sharing your EGG-ceptional chicken keeping know how with all of us who are embarking on this EGG-citing chicken keeping EGG-stravaganza!

This book is not only beautiful (to begin with) but inspiring, informative and a breath of fresh, clear, holistic air! There are many books on raising chickens, but this book is in a class of its own - this book is about raising healthy, holistic, and happy hens in a natural way, free of toxins and chemicals.As someone who eats an organic toxin free diet myself, I want that for my girls. I have not been much of a gardener but between the wisdom in this book and my happy hens, I am inspired to grow the herbs Lisa recommends and prepare some of these delectable treats for them. I have already been giving my hens and baby chicks some of the herbal treats and they jump (literally) for joy and are thriving.This is a must have book for anyone who cares about the planet, about sustainability, an organic lifestyle and raising hens with tender loving and natural care.The book is also beautiful to behold. I'm the host of the internet based Chicken Show so I read lots of books, mostly great ones, about urban chicken keeping, and this one just makes me feel happy to be a chicken keeper - and inspires me to plant my garden - and be healthier. You can tell, I love, love, love this book!

Must read for beginner chicken farmers who want healthy happy chickens. Packed with so much info, I love this book.

Excellent book! Promotes how to look after your chickens naturally and to really high standards- highly recommend to all chicken (potential) keepers!

Fabulous book full of clear uncomplicated information.

In dem Buch findet man massenweise Tipps und Rezepte, damit man seine Hühner gesund und glücklich halten kann.Viele Anregungen, welche Kräuter und Plfanzen benutzt werden können, um die Tiere gesund zu erhalten und Krankheiten entgegen zu wirken.Ich möchte das Buch nicht mehr missen, gibt es allerdings derzeitig nur in englisch.

Lisa Steele has helped me so much through reading her books and has given me so much priceless information on how to naturally raise healthy happy chickens! This book is an absolute must have! It’s definitely a book you will reference back to! A must have :)