Chicken Resources

As I said before, I read A LOT about chicken keeping before deciding it was the right choice. Every bit of information about chickening keeping I devoured got (gets) me more and more excited about it. There are tons of websites out there, some are great while others are weird and kinda creepy. Here's a list of some resources I've found helpful (sans the creepy ones), hopefully if you find this post early, it'll save you some time googling:

Books:

Storey's Guide to Keeping Chickens - great general resource

Keep chickens!: tending small flocks in cities, suburbs, and other small places - a little too preachy, but good information

Magazines:

Backyard Poultry

Websites:

Henderson's Chicken Breed Chart - lists chicken breeds with detailed descriptions of each

MyPetChicken - simple but informative articles about chicken care, plus chick ordering

Urban Chickens Network - blog - informative blog from a backyard chicken keeper in CA

Backyard Chickens - go straight for the forums, they're more useful than the other pages, the coop page is fun to look at too

I'm trying to get some of the nitty gritty stuff out of the way - our chicks arrive next week, so I imagine it'll be chick 101 from there on out - oh, and probably some coop talk too, since it's still a muddy patch in our yard.