Gail Damerow, author of "The Chicken Health Handbook, 2nd Edition", has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen country skills how-to books, including the best-selling "Storey s Guide to Raising Chickens", "The Chicken Encyclopedia", and "Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks". Damerow is a regular contributor to "Backyard Poultry" and "Countryside "magazines. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orc...