Those of you who have been
following my chicken experiments here all year will probably find most
of this old news, but I summed up the year’s data over on my
homesteading blog. Drop by for information on:
- Getting
started with rotational chicken pastures - Plants
chickens like to eat (a seasonal review) - Sustainability
of meat chickens (with information on dark to white meat ratio in
heirloom breeds) - Feed
conversion rate for homegrown broilers (with data from a couple of
batches I didn’t share here yet) - Chicken
incubation questions - Causes
of chick death in the brooder - Deep
bedding for chickens - Preview
of chicken experiments for 2012 (lots of questions I hope to answer
in the next year)
Finally, you might be
interested in this Appalachian
forest pasture study,
even though it uses sheep instead of chickens. That should be
enough reading to last you all weekend!
