Poultry BooksWe have used all the following poultry books to help us raise and manage our various poultry flocks. Whether you are a backyard poultry hobbyist, a small family homestead or a commercial farm looking to improve your flocks, you'll find ways to meet your goals amongst this collection. All these books are highly recommended.Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry, by Leonard Mercia This is one of the quintessential guides to raising chickens, waterfowl, turkeys and guineas. Housing, feeding, egg production, meat production, and disease prevention and treatment are all covered. Suitable for those who have never worked with birds before. A very good foundation poultry book. Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, by Gail Damerow Like the book above, this is a Storey guide to raising, managing, feeding and using poultry. But in this case, the book is all about chickens, nothing else. Gail Damerow has been raising and writing about fowl for many years and that experience shines through. I think this was our first chickens book, back in the day when we were in a downtown apartment dreaming of the day we'd finally have a farm. Suitable for beginners, but this poultry book will also provide good reference material for more experienced poultry keepers. Pastured Poultry Profits, by Joel Salatin For small family farms and larger commercial operations, this is one of the authoritative books on how to get those birds out on pasture. Cut your costs, boost your flock health, improve your pasture soils and participate in the lucrative pastured poultry and pastured eggs markets, thanks to the information in this book. This is one of Joel's earlier self-published books and the fonts and layout will reflect that. But the information is pure gold. Hundreds, if not thousands, of small scale poultry producers have followed Joel's lead and introduced birds to their operation with profitable results. Even if you don't follow every word of his recommendations, he'll give you a lot to think about and ways to diversify your operation. This is the management method we use for our meat birds and layers during summertime. Very highly recommended. This is another book about kicking birds out of the coop and into the pastures. But Andy and Patricia have a slightly different take on how best to do that. They day range their birds, such that the birds (and farmers) reap all the rewards of pastured poultry without some of the predation risks that come from having birds out at night. Their management methods are slightly different from Joel's as well, with slightly more emphasis on semi-permanent or permanent housing but slightly less day-to-day work. This is the management method we use for our birds in wintertime. Also very highly recommended. |
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