Hey guys, welcome to Backyard homestead, but here with you tonight going to be making some book recommendations for you because you have requested it. There's a lot of homesteading books out there, folks, and there's a lot of great guides and information packets and magazines. 

But I understand that because there's so much, it's hard to know what or who to go to. We're going to break it down for you. Not only we're going to break it down for you in terms of sources, but we're also going to break it down to you for you in terms of genre. So for those of you that need information about chickens, maybe your grandchild, your granddaughter's getting into chickens and she needs some good books for Christmas or for homeschooling. Then this is definitely going to be the way to go. 

This is stories, guide stories, story publishing. This is their guide to raising chickens, but the reason I'm recommending this is not only because are they great, bright, great source of a lot of great books and information. Gail Dan Morrow, ms. Gail, Dan Morrow wrote this book. It doesn't get any better than Gail Dan Morrow. 

The source on chickens in the entire homestead community is ms. Scaled MRO. You're going to notice that the books that I'm recommending to you tonight or tomorrow. That's not just a coincidence. It's because she's one of the best, if not the best. 

This is an actual, let me move my little prop here, a little red rooster. Um, this is an actual book that you will literally sit and read. It's not a story book. It's not a picture book. It's not even really like an encyclopedia book. This is something that you are going to go from beginning to end, from breeding to coops, to methods and raising your chickens all about bedding and reus.

I mean, seriously. It is going to go through everything. I still have post-it notes in there. You know, because I refer to this book, I have read this book several times and this was one of the books I started with several, several, several years ago, a gentleman that I'm good friends with actually sent this to me as a present. He was out in Colorado. He sent this to me as a present. 

And I love this book. So you can Combs. I mean, you name it, the, all the basics and more that you need to know, this is going to get you in line. 

Here's the second book I'm going to recommend to you now, even if you have this, okay. Even if you had this book and you raise chickens, like me and I have been doing it for quite some time, and you have a lot of information up in your noggin and a lot of great books. Do you have this one?

I am telling you, this is one of my newer books that I got, uh, just this year. Um, Gail Damrau. 

Yes, this is the chicken, the entire best chicken encyclopedia. You're going to open it up and it literally goes in alphabetical order. It's like a dictionary and encyclopedia of specific information pertaining to your chickens. If you already have chickens, A must have a win-win for everybody. So again, this is a great thing for beginners to kind of break you in. If you want to go for both. I don't, I highly recommend it, but if you already have chickens and you don't have this, you really need to think about it. 

Last but not least, I'm going to reach over.

It's a big book, big book last but not least. I have bragged about this book until the chickens, till the cows come home and they're out there eating hay right now.

This is the, you've seen the little, the smaller version of this, the backyard homestead. They have several books. There are wonderful. This is the larger guide for farm animals. I use this book. It is so fantastic. I had already read it twice, gone through it. It is so good. And I'm so confident in the information that I actually use it as part of my oldest boys curriculum in homeschooling for animal science, for one of his electives, um, his freshman year. 

So I'm telling you, not only is it great for adults, but it's wonderful for children, young adults, young children, getting into homestead and getting into, you know, maybe their first, like right here, how to raise broilers. It covers the basis. I still have all my notes and whatever him.  It is a guide overall for turkeys, ducks, chickens, pigs, how to raise baby chicks.

I mean, if you're trying to get into a heavy, heavy in depth, you know, a veterinarian style book, um, obviously it's not going to go that far out, but it's going to mention a lot of great things for you. Turkeys, ducks, geese, meat, rabbits, processing, even bees in here, goats, you can see right there or whatever. 

Where do I have here? Uh, gestation with th with the kidding sheep. There's the sheep. Um, pigs had my boy read this twice. Dairy cows and beef cattles, because what it does, beef cattle up, you even can do have a lot of comparison illustrations in here getting started. What are you looking for? What are your needs? What should you look for when you go and spend your money in purchasing these large expensive animals?

Ms. Jennifer is not only an expert in chickens. She does it well all around. That's what you're going to find in this book. So if you were to start off, um, you know, and really twist my arm, which doesn't take a lot of twisting, I'm going to put you in this, in this area right here, these two books, particularly, particularly, obviously for the chickens, this has a lot of chicken information in as well. And if you feel like you're going to branch out a way from the chickens, you got to have this on the shelf.