Backyard Poultry – A Reference for Keeping Healthy Chickens in Your Backyard
Backyard Poultry – Naturally by Alanna Moore is a book that is an ultimate and timeless reference for providing a nourishing environment for happy and heathy chickens in your backyard.
It is all you need to raise poultry at home using chemical free methods. The book has breed information, detailed plant profiles, remedies for common poultry health problems, colour photos and much more!
Backyard Chicken Benefits to a Home
The popularity of poultry has recently increased and makes sense as they are amazing multi-functional livestock.
A few of their benefits are to provide your home with nutritious eggs, compost inputs, pest control, soil maintenance, help for veggie garden bed preparation, loveable pets that provide the family many hours of entertainment and joy and great learning experiences for children.
Backyard Poultry - Naturally Book Topics and Information Covered
Comprehensive information about natural poultry care is hard to find. Backyard Poultry - Naturally (now in its third edition) is the one book needed to learn and find the resources needed to manage chickens.
Topics covered include:
Understanding behaviour, overall management, breed selection, housing options, feeding guidance and breeding techniques.
The book contains valuable information on how to maintain good health with natural remedy recipes and how to diagnose and medicate various diseases and issues. It includes preventative and curative herbal medicines and homeopathic remedies for common problems.
There's a comprehensive list, on chicken friendly plants, sample planting plans for planting around the chicken house areas, and incorporating permaculture principles for ease of management.
From housing to feeding, from selection to breeding, from pets to production, from the best lookers to the best layers, this book covers everything the backyard farmer needs to know about poultry husbandry.
The Author - Alanna Moore
Alanna is a permaculture farmer and passionate about preserving heritage chicken breeds.
She is a geomancer, someone who assesses the invisible dimensions of life and land. She is also a keen gardener, writer, poet, singer, teacher and film maker. Originally from Australia, she currently lives in rural Ireland.
Passionate about permaculture garden design for sustainable living since taking introductory studies in 1987, in 1993 Alanna was awarded three Permaculture Diplomas from Bill Mollison’s Permaculture Institute – in Media and Communications, in Implementation and in Teaching.