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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
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    • Butchering Poultry
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Pasture Shelters for Market Layer Flocks

Ault Trailer for Layers Another Ault Mobile Layer Shelter If you have a hankering to produce for an expanding pastured...

The Chicken Tractor: A Tribute to Andy Lee

Chicken Tractor on Garden Bed Hinged Lids It was Andy Lee’s book Chicken Tractor which more than any other source introduced the...

A Mobile Pasture Shelter: The Classic Polyface Model

Polyface Broiler Pen(Photo courtesy of Teresa Salatin) Moving the Polyface Pen(Photo courtesy of Teresa Salatin) In our grandparents’ time, of...

Going Mobile at the Smaller End of the Scale

Pasture Shelter for Broody Hen L’Artiste Even “flocksters” with only a very few hens are “going mobile” with their birds...

Building a Pasture Shelter

Thinking Through the Design Materials Notes on Materials Cutting Framing Roofing Wheels Thinking Through the Design In “Designing a Pasture Shelter” and...

Designing a Pasture Shelter

Morning(Photo courtesy of Deborah Moore) The pastured flock Easy mobility Weight Wind Whether to install a floor Avoiding injuries In...

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