This THE classic 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 across the planet.
Chicken tractors have become so popular that the term "chicken tractor" is a household word—and this is the definitive book that helped start the backyard family flock movement.
Learn how you can:
• Raise homestead flocks for eggs, meat and money.
• Use chickens to create super-rich soils that enable hyper-production gardens.
• Easily, step-by-step with over 60 photos, process poultry at home.
• Build custom chicken tractors for your homestead.
• Make a straw bale coop for your flock.
• Raise Thanksgiving turkeys for yourself and others.
• Understand how to select, buy and raise the best chickens for your goals.
• You can sell your chickens before they hatch.
A chicken tractor is a system that put your chickens where you want them to work. By using different fencing methods, you can direct them wherever you need help in your garden. The chickens peck and scratch the soil to clean your beds, eat pest bugs and weed seeds and fertilize the beds with their manure. Best of all, they provide eggs and meat with that old-fashioned flavor and homegrown goodness. It has already helped thousands of homesteaders have better production gardens and has literally changed the lives of millions of chickens all over the world.
By the author of City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Creators, Biomass Recyclers and Local Food Suppliers, and co-author of Backyard Market Gardening: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling What Your Grow, Day Range Poultry.
Creator of the Chickens and YOU™ Training Series that leads to the Master Backyard Chicken Keeper Certification (with a diploma suitable for training).
Pat is Co-Host for over 3 years of the grass-roots popular Chicken Whisperer Backyard Poultry and Sustainable Lifestyles Talk Show.
The author is the creator of the Chickens and YOU™ Training Series that leads to the Master Backyard Chicken Keeper Certification (with a diploma suitable for framing).
"In a world full of theory and unapplied academics, Chicken Tractor shines as a sterling example of a practical prototype developed by dirt-under-the-fingernails, creative thinkers. The simple elegance in design and description challenge me afresh to smack my forehead and exclaim: "now why didn't I think of that!" In our efforts to bring new paradigms to poultry production, we share a common vision, a brand-new ethics of excellence for proper models, delicious food and local profit potentials." — Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm
