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Huge fan of this guy’s duck raising methodology.
Check out his YouTube duck playlists.
He makes $3/dozen eggs profit AFTER expenses
We watch and rewatch his videos to glean new ideas
Category: Chickens, Ducks, Geese, & Fowl
Chickens, Ducks, Geese, & Fowl
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Thrifty Chicken Breeds: Efficient Producers of Eggs and Meat on the Homestead (Permaculture Chicken Book 3)
Do you want your chicken habit to pay for itself?Many backyard chicken keepers are surprised to learn that they spend more on store-bought feed than they would have paid for eggs and meat at the grocery store. If you’re on a budget and want your foray into poultry to save money, not lose money, your…;
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Do you want your chicken habit to pay for itself?
Many backyard chicken keepers are surprised to learn that they spend more on store-bought feed than they would have paid for eggs and meat at the grocery store. If you’re on a budget and want your foray into poultry to save money, not lose money, your first step should be to select thrifty chicken breeds.
The best breed for the cost-conscious homesteader will be a dual-purpose chicken that forages well, doesn’t cost much to feed, stands up well to predators and weather, and lays copiously in the winter. In addition, Thrifty Chicken Breeds covers a variety of other factors that homesteaders should consider when choosing new birds, then explains why a dozen common breeds do or don’t make the cut.
This new installment in the popular Permaculture Chicken series helps make backyard chicken keeping cheaper, sustainable, less smelly, and more fun. Join the thousands of readers who have used Hess’s tips to turn chickens into a frugal part of their permaculture homesteads!
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Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil
A chicken tractor is a bottomless, portable pen that fits over your garden beds. Just set it wherever you need help in your garden. The chickens peck and scratch the soil to clean your beds, eat pest bugs and weed seeds. Best of all, they provide eggs and meat with that old-fashioned flavor. Chicken tractors…;
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A chicken tractor is a bottomless, portable pen that fits over your garden beds. Just set it wherever you need help in your garden. The chickens peck and scratch the soil to clean your beds, eat pest bugs and weed seeds. Best of all, they provide eggs and meat with that old-fashioned flavor. Chicken tractors have helped thousands of gardeners have better gardens and taken chickens out of factory farms and put them in the garden where they are your personal helpers.Used Book in Good Condition
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Design and Use a Chicken Tractor
Chickens in a confined coop can end up living in an unpleasant dust-bowl, but allowing chickens to free-range can result in chickens getting into gardens and expose them to predators. A movable cage or “chicken tractor” is the best of both options – the chickens are safe, have access to clean grass, fresh air and…;
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Chickens in a confined coop can end up living in an unpleasant dust-bowl, but allowing chickens to free-range can result in chickens getting into gardens and expose them to predators.
A movable cage or “chicken tractor” is the best of both options – the chickens are safe, have access to clean grass, fresh air and bugs. Feed costs are reduced, chickens are happier, and egg production increases.
But how do you build a chicken tractor? What aspects should be considered in designing and using a chicken tractor effectively? In this eBook I aim to explain how to make a chicken tractor work for you in your environment to meet your goals for keeping chickens.
I also list what I have learnt over 10 years of keeping chickens in tractors of various designs and sizes, from hatching chicks, through to butchering roosters.
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Barakah Farm’s Un-heritage Muscovy Ducks
[Viewer caution: Some of the resource videos contain music and/or uncovered women]
Our farm normally works with heritage and heirloom varieties. We made an exception for these ducks.
Muscovy ducks are not a heritage breed. They are not rare (in fact, some consider them pests and for sure they can be invasive) However, our particular muscovies come from homestead-suitable bloodlines carefully selected on a friend’s farm over many generations for foraging ability, quick gains, large size and temperament. These are known as meat ducks but are also decent egg layers. They are quiet, do not require a pond, roost high, raise several batches of ducklings annually (usually 10+ ducklings per nest) and the adults will eat up to a pound of flies daily – each. Ducks are generally more gentle to garden plants (except greens) and will not uproot or eat plantings the way chickens will. The meat is dark, more like roast beef, and lean. These ducks have large claws for tree climbing, and they know how to use them. Between the claws and the large size, they are more resistant to the smaller predators. We keep our muscovies for insect control and eggs.
Muscovies can be a very efficient and useful homestead addition, and can also be part of a nice homestead income. Below is a collection of our research on muscovy care, efficient feeding, and business building.
Tip: Plant trees that will provide shade and feed for the ducks and for you. Set up your water stations next to the trees on some pavers. Dump the dirty water to water the trees.
For a no soy, no gmo corn, no gmo system, consider peanut meal, black oil sunflower seeds, blackfly larvae. You can grow your own heirloom corn. You can sprout grains and sunflower seeds for more efficient digestion.
This is a great video on blackflies for food, including an easy farm unit you can build yourself.
This is a good video about sprouting seeds.
We made our own rolling sprouting system to put in the downstairs shower using an inexpensive rolling metal utility rack, and the some plastic containers with holes drilled in the bottom. We currently plan to sprout only sunflower seeds in 2020, and add our own heirloom corn in 2021, God willing.
Before assuming that organic is best, look at the care, the facility, the food choice. Educate yourself and your customers about humane husbandry and natural feed. Feed is your biggest expense. Ducks can be organic by feeding organic feed, and yet live in factory conditions. Clean healthy feed and a humane life matter more, in my opinion.
You can run ducks in your garden around mature crops and perennials. Do not run ducks with your young sprouting plants or your greens. For those of your raising goats or other livestock that get meningeal worm, ducks control the snails and slugs that host the parasite.
This article from Milkwood has some great information. “For someone raising ducks for meat, the ducklings grow out to a good size (but not full size) by 10-12 weeks, and it’s at this time, before they get their full set of adult feathers, that home harvest makes the most sense from both a practical (plucking) and a output-for-input point of view.”
We converted an old corn drying barn into a night shelter and laying area for the ducks, and during the day they free range (thank goodness for tolerant neighbors during our learning phase). To prevent wandering, we make sure the ducks get treats during the day and feed the main meal in evening to lure them back to night shelter. We clip the wing feathers of the adult birds after each molt to keep them walking, not flying. If the ducks have enough space and enough food, not too many males competing for females, and have formed the habit of staying around, they generally stick to a couple acres here at home. The ducks are big enough to discourage smaller predators, though eagles find them tasty and easy to grab, and loose dogs or larger predators will still take one if given a chance.
Please reach out to us if you would like to learn more about our system or visit the farm.
Coming this spring! Free-range duck eggs for eating, hatching eggs, and starter flocks of adult birds. Local pickup or delivery (with appropriate safety measure and distancing) and we can ship! We do not offer meat ducks. Please call/email for referral to separate local meat share business, including halal. Online ordering coming soon.
Eggs for eating $1/each $7/dozen Hatching eggs from select hens $2/each $20/dozen Adult starter flock (1 drake, 2 hens) $100 (includes mentoring) Email us to get on the waiting list!
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Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil, Homestead (3rd) Edition
Chicken Tractor The Homestead (3rd) Edition This is the book that tells you how to integrate small flocks of poultry in with family food production. There is a back to the land movement happening across the world, and it’s happening in backyards and on small parcels of land. Chicken tractor systems have become so popular…;
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Chicken Tractor The Homestead (3rd) Edition This is the book that tells you how to integrate small flocks of poultry in with family food production. There is a back to the land movement happening across the world, and it’s happening in backyards and on small parcels of land. Chicken tractor systems have become so popular that the term chicken tractor; is a household word. This is the definitive book that leads the way. Learn how you can: Raise homestead flocks for eggs, meat and money. Use chickens to create super-rich soils that enable hyper-productive gardens. Easily, step-by-step, process poultry at home. Build custom chicken tractors for your homestead. Make a straw bale coop for your flock. Understand how to select, buy and raise the best chickens for your goals. Chicken Tractor is a revolutionary, practical, hands-on book that has helped tens of thousands of gardeners create better gardens. It has changed the lives of millions of chickens all across the planet.ISBN13: 9780984338207
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Chickens & Their Coops 2017 Wall Calendar
All sorts of city dwellers are raising chickens: animal lovers prize them as pets, locavores and Slow Food enthusiasts dig the fresh eggs, and environmentalists and permaculture gardeners see chickens as part of a sustainable lifestyle. With colorful, upbeat photography, the whimsical Chickens & Their Coops wall calendar features twelve months of feathered friends and…;
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All sorts of city dwellers are raising chickens: animal lovers prize them as pets, locavores and Slow Food enthusiasts dig the fresh eggs, and environmentalists and permaculture gardeners see chickens as part of a sustainable lifestyle. With colorful, upbeat photography, the whimsical Chickens & Their Coops wall calendar features twelve months of feathered friends and their distinctive digs.
- A year of quirky chickens and creative coops on your wall.
- Frameable artbook-quality printing.
- The perfect gift for the urban chicken enthusiast and sustainable farmer.
- Features ideas on how to build your own backyard garden chicken coop.
- Printed on FSC® Certified Mixed Source Paper with soy-based inks.
- Published by Amber Lotus, an independent carbon-negative US company that has planted more than half a million trees since 2008.
- This calendar features US and Canadian legal holidays, phases of the moon, and important observances of the world’s major religions.
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Permaculture Chicken: Incubation Handbook
The Permaculture Chicken Incubation Handbook walks beginners through perfecting the incubating and hatching process so they can enjoy the exhilaration of the hatch without the angst of dead chicks. 92 full color photos bring incubation to life, while charts, diagrams, and tables provide the hard data you need to accomplish a hatch rate of 85%…;
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A Chicken in Every Yard: The Urban Farm Store’s Guide to Chicken Keeping
Got a little space and a hankering for fresh eggs? Robert and Hannah Litt have dispensed advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers from behind their perch at Portland’s Urban Farm Store, and now they’re ready to help you go local and sustainable with your own backyard birds. In this handy guide to breeds,…;
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Got a little space and a hankering for fresh eggs?
Robert and Hannah Litt have dispensed advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers from behind their perch at Portland’s Urban Farm Store, and now they’re ready to help you go local and sustainable with your own backyard birds. In this handy guide to breeds, feed, coops, and care, the Litts take you under their experienced wings and share the secrets to:
Picking the breeds that are right for you • Building a sturdy coop in one weekend for $100 • Raising happy and hearty chicks • Feeding your flock for optimal health and egg nutrition • Preventing and treating common chicken diseases • Planning ahead for family, neighborhood, and legal considerations • Whipping up tasty egg recipes from flan to frittata
With everything that first-timers will need to get started—along with expert tips for more seasoned keepers—this colorful, nuts-and-bolts manual proves that keeping chickens is all it’s cracked up to be.A Chicken in Every Yard The Urban Farm Store s Guide to Chicken Keeping
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Permaculture Chickens
A “how to” film on raising chickens with nature from hatching to the plate! Get my (free) video series HERE: http://abundantpermaculture.com/free-chicken-videosA cinematic quality production that is highly entertaining and informative! It’s all you need to know for raising your own chickens. From hatching your chicks to feeding your chickens, to building your chicken housing to butchering your chickens to putting them to work in your garden, to cooking chicken and eggs.
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The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens: Everything You Need to Know . . . and Didn’t Know You Needed to Know About Backyard and Urban Chickens
Are you looking for a great way to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources? Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to start making this happen, even with limited space in your backyard. Let the Chicken Whisperer (poultry personality Andy Schneider) teach you everything he knows…and everything you need to…;
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Are you looking for a great way to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources? Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to start making this happen, even with limited space in your backyard. Let the Chicken Whisperer (poultry personality Andy Schneider) teach you everything he knows…and everything you need to know…about raising a backyard flock! Ditch the super-technical manuals and enjoy Andy’s unique, common-sense perspective in The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens. This fun, comprehensive guide is a perfect fit for your busy lifestyle.
Inside, you’ll learn:—The Benefits of a Backyard Chicken Flock—So You’re Eggspecting: The Art of Incubation— The Art of Brooding—Home Sweet Home: Coops & Runs—Nutrition, Health, and Wellness…and much more!Used Book in Good Condition
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How To Preserve Eggs: Freezing, Pickling, Dehydrating, Larding, Water Glassing, & More (The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos from 5 Acres & A Dream Book 1)
If you have chickens, you likely have times when you have a lot of eggs. You can eat them, trade them, sell them, or ???? This little eBook shows you a number of ways to preserve homegrown eggs: freezing, pickling, dehydrating, larding, and water glassing. Also discusses shelf life and how to have fresh eggs…;
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If you have chickens, you likely have times when you have a lot of eggs. You can eat them, trade them, sell them, or ???? This little eBook shows you a number of ways to preserve homegrown eggs: freezing, pickling, dehydrating, larding, and water glassing. Also discusses shelf life and how to have fresh eggs all winter long.
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Stress-Free Chicken Tractor Plans: An Easy to Follow, Step-by-Step Guide to Building Your Own Chicken Tractors.
Inside these pages, you will find step-by-step instructions for a mobile broiler chicken shelter for pastured poultry that is used by farmers and homesteaders all over the country. Raising chickens on grass provides them with a healthy lifestyle and a delicious flavor. You can raise just enough of them to feed your family or scale…;
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Inside these pages, you will find step-by-step instructions for a mobile broiler chicken shelter for pastured poultry that is used by farmers and homesteaders all over the country.
Raising chickens on grass provides them with a healthy lifestyle and a delicious flavor. You can raise just enough of them to feed your family or scale up to include pastured poultry as a profitable part of your farm business. John Suscovich has raised thousands of chickens using these mobile shelters, a main enterprise on his farm in Connecticut.
These chicken tractors were created using the best elements from other designs. They are easy to move and provide a good life for the chickens. With a little bit of creativity, they can also be modified for seasonal egg-layer housing, rabbits, ducks and forts for your kids.
Not only does this book contain the plans and supply list to build your first chicken tractor, but it gives you some insight into how to use it and what mindset you should have if you are to become a happy and successful farmer.
John also walks you through the light carpentry skills you need to build these chicken tractors and teaches you the most commonly used knots on a farm. You may learn these skills for this project, but you’ll be able to apply them on your farm for years to come.
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Backyard Chickens: A Beginners Guide To Raising Backyard Chickens
DO YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO RAISE CHICKENS IN YOUR VERY OWN BACKYARD?Whether you want to learn what you need to get started, what the best breeds are, or understanding your chickens behaviour this book will help you. Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn…Benefits of Backyard ChickensWhat You Need to Get StartedGetting…;
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DO YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO RAISE CHICKENS IN YOUR VERY OWN BACKYARD?
Whether you want to learn what you need to get started, what the best breeds are, or understanding your chickens behaviour this book will help you.
Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn…
- Benefits of Backyard Chickens
- What You Need to Get Started
- Getting Setup to Bring the Chickens Home
- The Best Backyard Breeds
- Understanding the Basic Behaviors of Your Chicken
- Medical Issues With Your Chickens
- Making Money With Your Chickens
- Much, Much, More!
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Chicken Poop for the Soul: Backyard Adventures
In this book, the author describes experiences she and her husband have had with backyard chickens, first with neighbor chickens and then with their own. She explains what they did, how they did it, and why they chose to let their chickens be free-range. Based on several years of observation, she talks about the pecking…;
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In this book, the author describes experiences she and her husband have had with backyard chickens, first with neighbor chickens and then with their own. She explains what they did, how they did it, and why they chose to let their chickens be free-range. Based on several years of observation, she talks about the pecking order dynamics and chicken behaviors towards one another, other animals and people. She also takes a trip down memory lane and tells about the natural progression from her longtime interest in whole foods to backyard chickens and vegetable gardening in their one-acre piece of land in College Station, Texas.
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Homesteading Animals (4): Chunky Chickens For Meat And Eggs (Volume 4)
***RAISING CHUNKY CHICKENS – NO 1 BEST SELLER IN CATEGORY!***Raising Chickens could be considered as a quintessential part of living on a homestead, or living a self-sustainable lifestyle. Whether you are rearing hens for eggs or meat – or even just for company, this introduction to raising chickens offers all the information you will need…;
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***RAISING CHUNKY CHICKENS – NO 1 BEST SELLER IN CATEGORY!***
Raising Chickens could be considered as a quintessential part of living on a homestead, or living a self-sustainable lifestyle. Whether you are rearing hens for eggs or meat – or even just for company, this introduction to raising chickens offers all the information you will need to get started.Over 70 pages crammed with information on homesteading essentials such as the following, will ensure of a good grounding in self-sufficiency and rearing animals on your homestead or even backyard.
What You Will Find In This Book:
1. A glossary of 30 terms relating to the keeping of poultry, that will ensure you of a basic understanding as to what it is all about.2. Keeping chickens for eggs or meat? This is a list of ten of the most popular chicken breeds along with a brief description of the birds and whether they are most suitable for egg production or for the meat.
3. Should you have a static chicken coop, or a chicken tractor – and what is the difference anyway? This is a simple look at what your chicken shed requirements may be, and how to choose the best hut for your hens.
4. Chicken feed – This section will show you what to feed your poultry during the different stages of growth, from baby chick ,to point-of-lay pullet, to full production egg-laying chicken.
5. Dressing Your Chicken. No this is not to do with the latest clothes they must wear! For those interested in keeping poultry for meat, this is all about how to dispatch your chicken humanely and how to prepare the bird for the table – complete with pictures to help illustrate.
6. Last but by no means least – ten top chicken recipes to get your taste buds flowing! Courtesy of F. A. Paris’s book ‘Fantastic Chicken’, available on Amazon kindle books.
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Homesteading Animals 4-Book Bundle: Rearing Rabbits, Chickens, Ducks and Geese. A comprehensive introduction to raising popular farmyard animals
REARING RABBITS, CHICKENS, DUCKS & GEESEA Comprehensive Introduction to rearing 4 of the most popular animals to be found around the Homestead or farmyard, with this bundle of 4 books in one.Offered here at a Huge Discount on the individual book price.BOOK 1 – REARING RABBITS1 – Choosing Your Rabbits: With so many rabbits to…;
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REARING RABBITS, CHICKENS, DUCKS & GEESE
A Comprehensive Introduction to rearing 4 of the most popular animals to be found around the Homestead or farmyard, with this bundle of 4 books in one.
Offered here at a Huge Discount on the individual book price.BOOK 1 – REARING RABBITS
1 – Choosing Your Rabbits: With so many rabbits to choose from how do you know what is best for you and your particular plans? Here you will find a selection of the most popular rabbit breeds., whether choosing your rabbits for the best meat production, pelts or indeed as pets!
2 – Caring For Rabbits: If you want to get the best out of any livestock, then you must know how to care for them properly. Invaluable information on how to feed and care for your rabbits for best results.
3 – Costs & Considerations: How much does it cost to set up at rabbitry, and what could be the profitability of such an exercise?
Case study to look at the possible costs and profitability of breeding rabbits, looked at from a commercial and domestic viewpoint. Subjects covered include the numbers to be expected over a 1 year period, as well as start-up costs for 1 Buck and 3 Does using the New Zealand White rabbit a an example.
4 – Killing & Butchering: If you are raising your animals for meat, then information on how to dispatch your rabbit cleanly and efficiently is absolutely essential. Here are details on just how to achieve this with minimal stress to the animal, as well as how to dress or prepare the carcase.
5 – Glossary of Terms: A selection of over 60 popular terms used amongst rabbit breeders. Do you know what Binky means? Or perhaps what to do if your rabbit is Kindling? Check out these and other important terms here.
6 – Rabbit & Game Recipes! A selection of tasty rabbit and game recipes courtesy of F. A Paris from her excellent slow Cooking book “Slow Cooking Heaven.’BOOK 2 – DELIGHTFUL DUCKS:
1 – Duck Care: How to care for your ducks to ensure healthy birds, including shelter, feeding and caring for goslings.
2 – Duck Breeds: A selection of the most popular breeds to keep whether for meat or for eggs. Including popular bantam duck breeds.
3 – Duck Preparation: How to prepare you duck for the table or for sale.
4 – Duck Recipes! Last but not least, A selection of tasty duck recipes courtesy of F. A. Paris from the ‘Slow Cooking Heaven’ recipe book.BOOK 3 – GOURMET GEESE
1 – Caring For Your Geese: How to make sure your animals prosper from gosling stage to full adult, with instructions on proper shelter, feeding routines and health issues.
2 – Keeping Your Animals Healthy: How to be sure that you stay ahead of any potential health problems, and what to do if your animal becomes sick for any reason.
3 – Preparing For The Table: If you are rearing geese for the table then this is an essential piece of information to have. Includes instructions on how to dispatch your animals as humanely as possible, and how to prepare the bird for the table. Includes instructions on the best methods for plucking, cleaning and cooking your goose.BOOK 4 – CHUNKY CHICKENS:
1. A glossary of 30 terms relating to the keeping of poultry, that will ensure you of a basic understanding as to what it is all about.
2. Keeping chickens for eggs or meat? This is a list of ten of the most popular chicken breeds along with a brief description of the birds and whether they are most suitable for egg production or for the meat.
3. Should you have a static chicken coop, or a chicken tractor – and what is the difference anyway? This is a simple look at what your chicken shed requirements may be, and how to choose the best hut for your hens.
4. Chicken feed – This section will show you what to feed your poultry during the different stages of growth, from baby chick ,to point-of-lay pullet, to full production egg-laying chicken.
5. Dressing Your Chicken. This is all about how to dispatch your chicken humanely and how to prepare the bird for the table – complete with picture
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Raising Ducks for Beginners Guide: Perfect Poultry for Backyard Keeping (Homesteading Freedom)
Raising Ducks for BeginnersA Guide to Raising Ducks.Are you looking for a source of meat and eggs?Do you want to try homesteading? Are you trying to figure out how to raise ducks?Then this book is for you! Ducks are a great source of meat and eggs. You’ll find that ducks are easier to take care…;
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Raising Ducks for Beginners
A Guide to Raising Ducks.Are you looking for a source of meat and eggs?
Do you want to try homesteading?
Are you trying to figure out how to raise ducks?
Then this book is for you!
Ducks are a great source of meat and eggs. You’ll find that ducks are easier to take care of than chickens, and they’re perfect for backyard homesteading. Duck eggs are even considered to be better than chicken eggs due to their size and nutritional value. Ducks are also less aggressive and noisy than chickens, making them perfect for your backyard. You can even use the down feathers that you ducks have for down, so there’s no reason to be wasteful. This book will teach you everything you need to know in order to get started on raising your own ducks for whatever purpose you choose.
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Chicken Egg Gathering and Collecting Apron, Chicken and Rooster Print
A cute and durable chicken and duck egg collecting basket alternative. Keep two hands free while in your backyard and chicken coop!TWO HANDS FREE! No more needing a chicken egg basket that breaks chicken and duck eggs in your coop.STURDY STITCHING MADE FOR REAL WORK! This apron isn’t just to look good, it’s made tough…;
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A cute and durable chicken and duck egg collecting basket alternative. Keep two hands free while in your backyard and chicken coop!TWO HANDS FREE! No more needing a chicken egg basket that breaks chicken and duck eggs in your coop.
STURDY STITCHING MADE FOR REAL WORK! This apron isn’t just to look good, it’s made tough for the tough work.
HOLDS 10 JUMBO EGGS! 10 Specially stitched pockets hold the eggs securely.
Hands free so you can also work on the waterer, chick brooder, incubator, heat lamp, feeder, nesting pad, and candler and accessories.
LIFETIME MANUFACTURER WARRANTY! Only provided by our approved seller: American1985 Waist Band: 74 inches.
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The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers
The most comprehensive guide to date on raising all-natural poultry for the small-scale farmer, homesteader, and professional grower. The Small-Scale Poultry Flock offers a practical and integrative model for working with chickens and other domestic fowl, based entirely on natural systems. Readers will find information on growing (and sourcing) feed on a small scale, brooding…;
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The most comprehensive guide to date on raising all-natural poultry for the small-scale farmer, homesteader, and professional grower. The Small-Scale Poultry Flock offers a practical and integrative model for working with chickens and other domestic fowl, based entirely on natural systems.
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)
- 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.
Extended information on poultry health and holistic health care, with a focus on prevention
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.
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