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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.

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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.

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    CONTENTS

    Foreword, xiii PART TWO: Basic Care


    Acknowledgments, xvii
    Introduction, xix Chapter 6. Housing

    PART ONE: Getting Started


    Chapter 7. Manure Management in the Poultry
    House: The Joys of Deep Litter
    Chapter 1. Why Bother?

    Chapter 2. The Integrated Small-Scale Flock Chapter 8. Watering

    Water in Waterfowl
    Chapter 3. Your Basic Bird Chapter 9. Pasturing the Flock

    Chapter 4. Planning the Flock


    Chapter 10. Managing the Pastured Flock Using
    Electronet

    Chapter 5. Starting the Flock

    Chapter 11. Mobile Shelters

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    PART THREE: Working Partners PART FIVE: Other Management Issues

    Chapter 12. Putting the Flock to Work Chapter 20. One Big Happy Family

    Chapter 13. Chickens in the Garden Chapter 21. Protecting the Flock from Predators

    Chapter 14. A Question of Balance


    Chapter 22. Helping the Flock Stay Healthy

    PART FOUR: Feeding the Small-Scale Flock


    Gallus gallus domesticus
    Chapter 23. Managing the Winter Flock
    Chapter 15. Thoughts on Feeding

    Chapter 24. Other Domestic Fowl


    Chapter 16. Purchased Feeds

    Chapter 17. Making Our Own Feeds PART SIX: Breeding the Small-Scale Flock

    Chapter 25. Breeding for Conservation and Breed


    Improvement

    Chapter 18. Feeding the Flock from Home


    Resources

    Chapter 26. Managing the Breeding Season

    Chapter 19. Cultivating Recomposers for


    Poultry Feed Chapter 27. Working with Broody Hens

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    PART SEVEN: Poultry for the Table APPENDICES

    Chapter 28. Butchering Poultry Appendix A: Making Trap Nests, 331


    Appendix B: Making a Dustbox, 337
    Appendix C: Making a Mobile A-Frame Shelter,
    339
    Chapter 29. Poultry in the Kitchen
    Appendix D: Duck Confit, Convenience Food
    Extraordinaire, 346
    Appendix E: A Feed Formulation Spreadsheet, 350
    Chapter 30. Serving Small Local Markets Appendix F: Spreadsheets for Tracking Egg and
    Broiler Costs and Profits, 354
    Appendix G: Natural Eggs and Industrial Eggs
    Compared, 357
    Appendix H: Resources, 358
    Glossary, 365
    Endnotes, 370
    Epilogue: The Big Picture, 327
    Index, 383
    About the Author, 395

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