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| Humane, Healthy Poultry Production: A Manual for Organic Growers by Karma Glos | ||||
| The best poultry raising techniques for both layer and broiler production involve being considerate friends with your birds. Space considerations, lighting, housing, outdoor access, equipment all receive close, knowledgeable attention in this detailed handbook. What breeds to choose? How and what to feed them? Glos offers a chapter on each question, including ten pages on diagnosing disease and restoring and protecting birds' health using organic health care practices.
Specific management issues for egg and meat birds and turkeys and waterfowl receive attention, along with slaughtering procedures and packing and marketing ideas. Interspersed are detailed accounts of the author's own experiences on her Kingbird Farm. Karma Glos, the daughter of homesteading parents, majored in field biology at Evergreen State College in her home state of Washington and worked with the U.S. Forest Service studying small mammal ecology. She and her husband, Michael, have been building Kingbird Farm in upstate New York since 1995. Their operation includes hogs, poultry, beef, vegetables and herbs with the help of many draft horses. She admits having "a passion for healthful, innovative livestock husbandry practices." | |||||
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