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Books – Poultry Husbandry

Book Description Price/ Quantity
NEW – The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An all-natural approach to raising chickens and other fowl for home and market growers
By Harvey Ussery The most comprehensive and definitive guide to date on raising all-natural poultry, for homesteaders or farmers seeking to close their loop, The Small-Scale Poultry Flock offers a practical and integrative model for working with chickens and other domestic fowl, based entirely on natural systems. Learn about making your own feed, how to breed and brood the flock, putting poultry to work, and butchering techniques. Soft cover, 395 pages, full color, photographs throughout. 		$39.95
NEW EDITION – Chicken Tractor – The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil (3rd edition)
By Andy Lee & Patricia Foreman. This is a book that tells you how to integrate small flocks of poultry in with family food production. You’ll learn how to raise homestead flocks for meat, eggs, and money; how to use chickens to create super-rich soils; easy, step-by-step home processing; how to build chicken tractors; how to select, buy, and raise the best chickens for your goals; and much more! Soft cover, 312 pages, black and white, illustrations and photographs throughout. 		$19.95
Chick Days: Raising Chickens from Hatchlings to Laying Hens
By Jenna Woginrich. Do you want to raise chickens but don’t know where to begin? Then you need Chick Days , an entertaining photographic guide that chronicles the life journey of three chickens (Amelia, Honey, and Tilda) from newly hatched fluffy butterballs to grown hens laying eggs. Day by day and week by week, you’ll watch these three chickens grow and change, and along the way you’ll learn everything you need to know about chicken behavior, feeding, housing, hygiene, and health care. The witty writing of Jenna Woginrich (author of Made from Scratch ) paired with photography by Mars Vilaubi (who raised the chickens himself, along with his wife and son) will give every chicken-lover the confidence and enthusiasm to raise a flock. Soft cover, 128 pages, full-color, illustrations and photographs throughout. 		$14.95
Storey’s Guide to Raising Turkeys
By Leonard Mercia. Extensively revised and updated with more than 100 new pages added, this book includes information on selection, housing, breeding, management, processing, behavior, and health concerns. Everything you need to know to raise turkeys. Soft cover, 208 pages, illustrated.
 $18.95
The Book of Geese:  A Complete Guide to Raising the Home Flock
By David Holderread.  The A-Z’s of raising geese, from choosing a breed to managing birds, written by one of the country’s foremost water fowl experts. Soft cover, illus., 216 p.

  $17.00
Chicken Assessment for Improving Productivity

This is a printed version of the publication offered for download on our Educational Resources page.

Printed in black and white.		  $5.00
How to Raise Heritage Turkeys on Pasture

This is a printed version of the publication offered for download on our Educational Resources page.

Printed in black & white with color cover.		  $12.95
Selecting Your Best Turkeys for Breeding

This is a printed version of the publication offered for download on our Educational Resources page.

Printed in black & white with color cover.
  $8.00