Andy G. Schneider

Andy Schneider, better known as The Chicken Whisperer® has become the go-to guy across the country for anything chickens. Over the years he has helped a countless number of people start their very own backyard flocks. He is not only the author of, The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens, Chicken Fact or Chicken Poop, and The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Zero Waste Chicken Keeping, but also Editor In Chief of, Chicken Whisperer Magazine, National Spokesperson for the USDA-APHIS Avian Health Program, and Host of the very popular, Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer web radio show and podcast. He has been featured on CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, The Economist, USA Today,

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