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Title: Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil by Andy Lee, Pat Foreman, Patricia L. Foreman ISBN: 0-9624648-6-4 Publisher: Good Earth Pub Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.54 (13 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: has good concepts, but the steps and details are off
Comment: I used this book for some research and experiment ideas in agriculture. while it has some great general ideas and concepts, i found that the entire instructions for building the chicken tractor were lacking in detail and had conflicting drawings and steps. some required materials were not listed, and the process was vague. in reading the book, it seemed to me like a great book idea, but was very hastily presented and lacked thorough attention to detail. it looked very "thrown together". it is a book i recommend checking out from a library if you want some ideas, but i wouldn't waste my money purchasing it in hopes of practical steps for a chicken tractor. (the book might give inspiration, but YOU will have to come up with the practical details of trying and experimenting to build your tractor.) hint...lightweight and portable materials and use creativity to adapt their basic (and vaguely presented) tractor
Rating: 4
Summary: Fine book for right audience
Comment: amrdmr is worried about the wrong things. We don't raise chickens for pets. Why read this book if you have no plans to butcher you chickens some day. There aren't many old chicken homes.
The purpose of this book was to introduce you to the benefits of pastured poultry and give you a host of ideas. True, it didn't get specific enough when I wanted to implement one of the ideas. But then, the book would have been the size of an encyclopedia.
It was a great introduction book. There are very few that do as good a job.
Rating: 3
Summary: good ideas, some flaws
Comment: I will add my voice to the other reviewers because there seems to be a wide swing in opinion and maybe my thoughts will help others to decide whether or not to get this book. First of all, I know absolutely nothing about chicken-raising...starting from "scratch", as it were. I think the most serious flaw in "Chicken Tractor" is that the author barely mentions how to set up for laying hens and concentrates mainly on raising broilers and fryers; yet he always refers to slaughtering the chickens as "processing", a euphemism that is confusing at best. He refers to "processing plants", i.e. places that you take your live chickens and return to pick up "dressed", frozen chickens, but says that using this method is costly. He mentions home-slaughtering with the briefest of references to machines with horrifying names like "killing cone, thermostatically-controlled scalding vat and table-top plucking machine", but only says the machines are expensive and then leaves the reader totally in the dark (perhaps mercifully). I agree with the other reviewers that the author rambles and repeats himself endlessly, although when I realized that he would present the same information twice in a row, I just skipped the second go-round. I also agree that the cartoons are not very helpful in figuring out how you actually go about building the items needed. His instructions on building the chicken tractor could be followed, with some difficulty. But anyone trying to figure out how to build the perches and egg-laying boxes would have an almost impossible time trying to find that in this book. Also, he does a lot of cost calculations that date the book and are only minimally helpful. You will have no idea how to raise chicks or how to determine which rooster will be less noisy from reading this book. I gleaned only a fuzzy idea of how to protect my flock from predators or dogs.
The book's strengths lie in the explanation (albeit stated MANY times over) of the bio-ecological circle (he calls it "stacking) a small farmer strives for between the chicken manure enriching the soil, the soil producing more vegetables, scraps of which in turn feed the chickens, and so on. Another strength of the book is the list of suppliers and resources. The list of chicken breeds is quite long, but would have benefitted by adding more information about each variety. Bottomline, I think the book has some worthwhile information, but I definitely agree with the other reviewers who say that you will need other books in order to understand how to optimally raise chickens on a small farm. It might be better to start with another book.
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Title: Pastured Poultry Profits by Joel Salatin, Vicki H. Dunaway, Teresa W. Salatin ISBN: 0963810901 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Day Range Poultry: Every Chicken Owner's Guide to Grazing Gardens and Improving Pastures by Andy Lee, Patricia Foreman, Gene Logsdon ISBN: 0962464872 Publisher: Good Earth Pub Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Salad Bar Beef by Joel Salatin, H. Allan Nation ISBN: 096381091X Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise by Joel Salatin, Allan Nation ISBN: 0963810928 Publisher: Polyface Inc Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Chickens In Your Backyard : A Beginner's Guide by Rick Luttmann, Gail Luttmann ISBN: 0878571256 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1976 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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