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  • Overview
    • The Integrated Homestead
    • Life on the Homestead
  • Grow It!
    • Composting
    • Garden and Orchard
    • Greenhouse
    • Homestead Tools
    • Soil Care
  • Poultry
    • Poultry Overview
    • Feeding The Flock
    • Housing the Flock
    • Dealing With Predators
    • Breeding Our Own Stock
    • Producing for Small Markets
    • Butchering Poultry
    • Poultry Miscellaneous
    • Livestock
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Flock Identification

Table of Contents for This Page Identification of Chicks: Toe Punching Identification of Adults: Numbered Bandettes Identification of Adults: Wing...

Using the Clan Mating System

Using the Clan Mating System: Low-Input Breeding for Maximum Genetic Diversity in Small Flocks This page was originally posted to...

The Trapnest

The following is the original (expanded) version of my article “Improve Your Flock with Trapnests”, published in the April/May 2017 issue...

Making and Using Trap Nests

For additional trapnest designs and a more detailed discussion of nest-trapping, see The Trapnest: Indispensable Tool for Improvement Breeding. And...

My Long Goose Breeding Saga

Table of Contents for This Page Pilgrims I Africans Pilgrims II Pilgrims III Sidebar: Information and Stock I love raising...

Breeding Your Backyard Flock

Successful breeding starts with the recognition that diploid species, whether human or chicken, have paired homologus chromosomes in their somatic...

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