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  • Overview
    • The Integrated Homestead
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  • Grow It!
    • Composting
    • Garden and Orchard
    • Greenhouse
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    • Soil Care
  • Poultry
    • Poultry Overview
    • Feeding The Flock
    • Housing the Flock
    • Dealing With Predators
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    • Butchering Poultry
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The Industrial Broiler System: A Brief Debate

Following publication of “Sunday Dinner Chicken: Alternatives to the Cornish Cross” in the Apr/May 2009 issue of Backyard Poultry Magazine, a reader criticized...

Moral Puzzles in the Backyard

The following article was first published in the February/March 2010 issue of Backyard Poultry Magazine. With thanks to my “chicken buddy”...

The Homestead Flock: Pets or Partners?

This article was published in the December 2008/January 2009 issue of Backyard Poultry Magazine. It was posted to the site December...

Poultry Husbandry in a Changed Energy Future

This article was published in the Dec 2007/January 2008 issue of Backyard Poultry Magazine. Please note that, at the time I...

Poultry 101: Starting a Small Flock of Chickens – Q&A

Table of Contents 1: Basic  |  2: Management  |  3: Q & A 3. Miscellaneous Questions and Observations Nomenclature An...

Poultry 101: Starting a Small Flock of Chickens – Management

Table of Contents 1: Basic  |  2: Management  |  3: Q & A 2. Management Pasturing the Flock Nothing you...

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