The Small-Scale Poultry Flock
Chelsea Green Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-1-60358-290-2 (ISBN)
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Readers will find information on growing (and sourcing) feed on a small scale, brooding (and breeding) at home, and using poultry as insect and weed managers in the garden and orchard. Ussery's model presents an entirely sustainable system that can be adapted and utilized in a variety of scales, and will prove invaluable for beginner homesteaders, growers looking to incorporate poultry into their farm, or poultry farmers seeking to close their loop. Ussery offers extensive information on:
The definition of an integrated poultry flock (imitation of natural systems, integrating patterns, and closing the circle)
Everything you need to know about your basic chicken (including distinctive points about anatomy and behavior that are critical to management)
Extended information on poultry health and holistic health care, with a focus on prevention
Planning your flock (flock size, choosing breeds, fowl useful for egg vs. meat production, sourcing stock)
How to breed and brood the flock (including breeding for genetic conservation), including the most complete guide to working with broody hens available anywhere
Making and mixing your own feed (with tips on equipment, storage, basic ingredients, technique, grinding and mixing)
Providing more of the flock's feed from sources grown or self-foraged on the homestead or farm, including production of live protein feeds using earthworms and soldier grubs
Using poultry to increase soil fertility, control crop damaging insects, and to make compost-including systems for pasturing and for tillage of cover crops and weeds
Recipes for great egg and poultry dishes (including Ussery's famous chicken stock!)
And one of the best step-by-step poultry butchering guides available, complete with extensive illustrative photos.
No other book on raising poultry takes an entirely whole-systems approach, or discusses producing homegrown feed and breeding in such detail. This is a truly invaluable guide that will lead farmers and homesteaders into a new world of self-reliance and enjoyment.
Harvey Ussery’s homestead in northern Virginia has been the setting for constant experimentation toward regeneration, sustainability, and harmony with the surrounding ecology. He has shared what he has learned in numerous articles in Backyard Poultry, Mother Earth News, Countryside & Small Stock Journal, and Grit!, the newsletter of American Pastured Poultry Producers Association. Ussery has presented widely at national and local events on poultry and other homesteading topics, and maintains a highly informative website, TheModernHomestead.US. He shares the ongoing adventure with his wife, Ellen. Joel Salatin and his family own and operate Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The farm produces pastured beef, pork, chicken, eggs, turkeys, rabbits, lamb and ducks, servicing roughly 6,000 families and 50 restaurants in the farm’s bioregion. He has written 14 books to date, is editor of Stockman Grass Farmer Magazine, and lectures around the world on land healing and local food systems. Polyface Farm operates a formal apprenticeship program and conducts many educational workshops and events.
1. Why bother?
2. The integrated small-scale flock
3. Your basic bird
4. Planning the flock
5. Starting the flock
6. Housing
7. Manure management in the poultry house : the joys of deep litter
8. Watering
9. Pasturing the flock
10. Managing the pastured flock using electronet
11. Mobile shelters
12. Putting the flock to work
13. Chickens in the garden
14. A question of balance
15. Thoughts on feeding
16. Purchased feeds
17. Making your own feeds
18. Feeding the flock from home resources
19. Cultivating recomposers for poultry feed
20. One big happy family
21. Protecting the flock from predators
22. Helping the flock stay healthy
23. Managing the winter flock
24. Other domestic fowl
25. Breeding for conservation and breed improvement
26. Managing the breeding season
27. Working with broody hens
28. Butchering poultry
29. Poultry in the kitchen
30. Serving small local markets
Epilogue : The big picture
Appendices
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.6.2013 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Joel Salatin |
| Zusatzinfo | Index; Bibliography; Line drawings, color; Tables, color; Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | White River Junction |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 204 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 1134 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-60358-290-8 / 1603582908 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-60358-290-2 / 9781603582902 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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