The Small-Scale Poultry Flock

By Harvey Ussery,

Book cover of The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising and Breeding Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers

Book description

The first edition of The Small-Scale Poultry Flock helped thousands of small-scale farmers and smallholders adopt a practical model for working with chickens and other domestic fowl based on natural systems.

In this expanded and thoroughly revised edition, readers will find plenty of all-new material. Author Harvey Ussery introduces readers…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Small-Scale Poultry Flock as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A highly innovative book on the why and how of keeping chickens and other poultry without dependence on buying chicken feed from the feed store. 

There is nothing new about keeping chickens to process your weeds and leftovers into human food—people have relied on them for thousands of years—but purchasing large volumes of expensive feed to produce eggs is not sustainable or practical. This book will solve that problem for you.

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