Chickens in Your Backyard | A Beginner’s Guide | Rick & Gail Luttmann
A practical old-school guide to raising chickens at home, Chickens in Your Backyard was originally published in 1976 and became a long-running resource for backyard flock owners.
Rick and Gail Luttmann walk readers through the entire process, including choosing chickens, housing and coops, feeding, egg production, incubating and hatching chicks, raising chickens for meat or show, common problems, parasites, illness, and day-to-day flock care. It’s written as an approachable beginner’s guide rather than a technical farming manual, making it especially useful for anyone dreaming about starting a small backyard flock or homestead.
What I love about this one is that it captures backyard chicken keeping before it became the modern lifestyle trend it is today. It makes a great working reference, but it also has that vintage homesteading appeal that newer books simply don’t have.
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