Humane and Healthy Poultry Production (eBook)

Karma Glos (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011 | Revised and updated edition
128 Seiten
Chelsea Green Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-60358-358-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Organic poultry production systems can be sophisticated, technically advanced commercial operations or simple, small-farm add-ons integrated into a more complex agroecosystem. No matter the size or scale, the basic tenets of traditional organic agriculture apply. This NOFA guide includes information on:Organic poultry basicsEstablishing the facilities (housing and equipment, choosing and using litter, outdoor access, brooding, grazing and pasturing)Purchasing and brooding chicksOrganic feed and supplementsPoultry health care in the organic systemManagement challenges (production and culling, spotted shells, yolk color)Slaughter and ProcessingMarketingProduction expectations and economic viability

Inhalt

1. Organic poultry basics

2. Establishing the facilities

3. Purchasing and brooding chicks

4. Organic feed and supplements

5. Poultry health care in the organic system

6. Specific management challenges

7. Slaughter and processing

8. Marketing organic poultry

9. Production expectations and economic viability of organic poultry

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Illustrationen: Jocelyn Langer
• Zusatzinfo: Black and white line drawings
• Verlagsort: White River Junction
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: animal husbandry • backyard homesteading • Chicken • chicken egg production • chicken farming • Chickens • Egg • eggs • growers • Guide • Hens • homesteading • organic chicken farming • poultry farming • Raising chickens • raising chickens in your backyard • rearing chickens • Small Poultry Flock Basics • starting a chicken farm
• ISBN-10: 1-60358-358-0 / 1603583580
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-358-9 / 9781603583589