Day Range Poultry: Every Chicken Owner's Guide to Grazing Gardens and Improving PasturesGood Earth Publications, 2002 - 308 oldal Day Range Poultry - ISBN 0-9624648-7-2 by best selling authors Andy Lee and Patricia Foreman, 265pp. The subtitle describes it all: Every Chicken Owner's Guide to Grazing Gardens and Improving Pastures, Including the Management of Breeder Flocks, Egg Handling, Incubating, Hatchery Management, Building Shelters, Marketing,Advertising, Soils Regeneration, Compost Creation, Processing Poultry Humanely and Efficiently, and much, much more! This is the book that tells you just about everything you need to know to raise poultry on pasture from the egg up through processing. Based on years of hands-on experiences,success and failures, the authors hold back nothing about the realities, advantages and disadvantages and the rewards of small-scale poultry production systems for income and community food self-sufficiency. Hard to find information on raising turkeys and small-scale breeder flocks and incubation production. Foreword by everybody's favorite contrary farmer,Gene Logsdon. View the table of contents and download a free Day Range Poultry Primer at: www.GoodEarthPublications.com. |
Tartalomjegyzék
Recipe for Day Range Poultry | 14 |
Introduction by Tim Shell | 20 |
Why Raise Poultry on Pasture? | 28 |
How Day Ranging Was Started | 45 |
Day Range Poultry as a Business | 54 |
Consider a Poultry Producers Cooperative | 77 |
Designing Day Range Shelters | 83 |
Eggribusiness | 89 |
Day Range Fencing the Flock Not the Field | 105 |
Flock Management | 146 |
An OnFarm Hatchery | 175 |
Ordering Brooding Chicks | 206 |
Feeds Feeding and Water | 217 |
Pasture Forage Management | 231 |
What You Dont Know About Electric Fence | 240 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
acre Andy Lee animals Aragonite barn batch bedding birds breeder flock breeding broiler chicks broilers brooder bucket build charger chicken tractor chill tank clean coccidia cold commercial compost cost crates cross the pasture customers Day Range Poultry Day Range system easier eggs electric fence electric poultry netting evisceration farmers feeders feet fertility Fertrell floor free range freezer genetic give grain graze ground rods grow hatch rate hatchery hens hoop house humidity incubator inside Joel Salatin keep kill layaway layers laying livestock manure market garden meat mini-barns move nest boxes night on-farm oviduct paddock pasture pens pasture poultry Patricia Foreman Permaculture plastic portable poultry on pasture poultry products predators probiotics problem profit protein raised roost sell shackles shell shelter skids soil Sweet Grass temperature Tim Shell USDA weather weeks weight wire yolk