"The Small-Scale Poultry Flock"

The Small-Scale Poultry Flock

by Harvey Ussery

This comprehensive guide includes information on building soil fertility, producing your own feed from sources grown or self-forages, brooding and breeding at home, working with broody hens, and using poultry as insect and weed mangers in the garden and orchard.

A comprehensive guide to raising all-natural poultry for the homesteader and small-scale farmer. Ussery has a practical, whole-system approach to working with chickens and other domestic fowl that is a sustainable model and can be adapted to a variety of scales. This book includes information on building soil fertility, producting your own feed from sources grown or self-forages, brooding and breeding at home, working with broody hens, and using poultry as insect and weed mangers in the garden and orchard. Copyright 2011, softcover, 382 pages.