BACKYARD POULTRY NATURALLY

by ALANNA MOORE

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New softcover book, 154 pages. Third Edition, published 2014, updated with new pictures and in full colour.

What's the difference betweeen a Frizzle and a Fav? A Pekin and a Polish? A Welsummer and a Wyandotte? How do you successfully determine the sex of day old chickens? What natural products can be used to treat lice infestations? And what should you do if a broody hen won't get off the nest to feed?

Backyard Poultry - Naturally answers all these questions and more. From housing to feeding, from selection to breeding, from pets to production, and from the best lookers to the best layers, this book covers everything the backyard farmer needs to know about poultry husbandry - including preventative and curative herbal medicines and homeopathics, plus permaculture design for productive poultry pens.

Backyard Poultry - Naturally is an excellent resource. It is entertaining and informative and will appeal to amateur and avid poultry farmers alike. Author Alanna Moore has taken her own extensive experience of natural healing and poultry care and used it to produce a very compact and readable reference.

Backyard Poultry - Naturally is unique in that all the natural management and health tips required for happy poultry are found in this one comprehensive and highly acclaimed book. The author was intensively involved in the breeeding of rare fowl and duck breeds for over six years and discovered the need for such a book. She researched and wrote about natural fowl care for poultry and permaculture magazines in the 1990's and the first edition of Backyard Poultry - Naturally, published in 1998 by Bolwarrah Press, was the result.

This 3rd edition has now been completely updated and revised. New natural remedies have been added along with new breed photographs - and it is now in full colour!

About the Author
Alanna Moore is a permaculture farmer, teacher and an environmental journalist, a writer for Australasian Poultry, Permaculture International Journal, Green Connections, Earth Garden, Acres Australia and Acres USA. She is the author of seven books including the best selling rural book Backyard Poultry - Naturally. Alanna has studied acupuncture, naturopathy and spiritual healing modalities, as well as permaculture, organic farming, bush tucker and bush regeneration, and now specialises in Earth-spirit centred permaculture design.

She has 20 years experience of dowsing and geomancy. She was a founder of the New South Wales Dowsing Society in 1983 and has taught 'probably thousands' of people how to dowse. She practises geomancy professionally and lives in central Victoria. Alanna is the author of 'Dowsing and Healing', 'Divining Earth Spirit', 'Stone Age Farming', a correspondence course (Diploma of Dowsing for Harmony) and publishes a quarterly 'Geomantica' magazine.

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Backyard Poultry Naturally by Alanna Moore