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The average hen lays 265 table eggs each year.

You can learn to build chicken coops for a city backyard. How to raise baby chicks.

A chicken can have 4 or 5 toes on each foot.
Grocery store chickens are 5-8 weeks old.
A chicken takes 21 days to hatch.
Chickens were domesticated about 8000 years ago.
Americans consume 8 billion chickens a year.
All domestic chickens can be genetically traced to Gallus Gallus, The Red Jungle Fowl.
It takes 4 lbs. of feed to make 1 dozen eggs

Learn about Chickens

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens: Care / Feeding / Facilities

by: Gail Damerow

Amazon Price: $7.65 (as of 05/29/2012)

Expert advice on selecting breeds, caring for chicks, producing eggs, raising broilers, feeding, troubleshooting, and much more.

If you've ever considered raising chickens for hobby or profit, this is the book for you.

Success With Baby Chicks: A Complete Guide to Hatchery Selection, Mail-Order Chicks, Day-Old Chick Care, Brooding, Brooder Plans, Feeding, and Housing

by: Robert Plamondon

Amazon Price: $10.13 (as of 05/29/2012)

Raising baby chicks can be a delightful experience if things go well, but it can be discouraging and even heartbreaking if things go wrong.

Keeping you own Chickens

Raising Chickens: Chickens have got to be the easiest, most forgiving, creatures for a small farm to manage.
The City Chicken: How to build chicken coops in the city backyard.