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By Victoria Redhed Miller

ISBN-10: 0865717532

ISBN-13: 9780865717534

Houdan. Nankin. Indian Runner. Naragansett. those might sound like unique position names or strange kinds of produce, yet each one really refers to 1 of the various thousands of lesser-known bird breeds which tempt the cattle proprietor who's ready to enterprise into much less charted territory. delivering an alternative choice to advertisement breeds and hybrids, historical past breeds each one boast their very own particular set of features and character features, and are a necessary (and pleasing) addition to a sustainable meals system.Pure Poultry is the 1st ebook in approximately 100 years to concentration in particular on historical past breeds of chickens, turkeys, and geese and their function in a self-reliant way of life. This well timed source includes:
• specified guidance on every little thing from housing, breeding, and day by day care, to cooking and meals preservation
• Much-needed breed-specific details for egg and meat production
• counsel, proposal, prompt interpreting, and extra assets
• a different flowchart-style worksheet that simplifies the method of beginning out with poultry
Brimming with quiet humor, Pure Poultry is an immensely readable "how-to and why-to" established completely on own experience?including lots of classes realized the challenging approach. Pure Poultry indicates how heritage-breed fowl can improve and deepen anyone's caliber of existence, no matter if you could have a farm, a small yard, or a neighbor with house to share.Victoria Redhed Miller is a author, photographer, and off-grid homesteader who increases background fowl within the foothills of Washington's Olympic Mountains. Miller blogs approximately her stories at potpiesandeggmoney.blogspot.com and canyoncreekfarms.blogspot.com.

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41 42 Pure Poultry Did I mention that I like to ask questions first? Since the little darlings were already ordered and presumably the eggs were in the incubator (not that I knew how long duck eggs had to be incubated), a slight nervousness was creeping up on me. By the next day, I admit, I was feeling fairly panicky. When, I asked myself, was I going to find time to build yet another coop? For that matter, what kind of house do ducks prefer? Beyond having a vague impression that ducks don’t roost like chickens, I had no idea what their housing needs might be.

Since we were hoping to free-range our flock, we wanted only birds that could Poultry from Scratch 31 provide some of their own food. Fourth, the breed should be dualpurpose, good for both egg and meat production. Fifth, tendency toward broodiness. Once I figured out that this meant the hens are inclined to incubate and hatch eggs, I thought it was a good thing. Finally, given everything else I wanted in a chicken, it made sense to look at purebred (heritage-breed) birds, rather than production-type hybrids.

Chapter 8 Everybody Look Busy — Here Come the Ducks! Ducks are the perfect backyard livestock because they are so well-behaved. — Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch, Four Season Harvest, Chelsea Green, 1999 “O h, by the way,” David said casually to me one fine April morning. ” I replied. We were in the middle of morning poultry chores, and I wasn’t really paying close attention. After a moment, I real­i­zed that David was standing still, waiting for a reaction. The light dawned. ” I was trying very hard to sound casual myself.

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