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 best poulty book ever August 11, 2008
Frieda N. Yasbek (Lyle, WA USA)
there is nothing in this book that is not useful and to the point. no waffle, tried and workable advice, clearly written.
the author has been a successful farmer for at least 20 years, so he knows what he is talking about.
THANK YOU, JOEL SALATIN!
Growing wealth! August 4, 2008
Mike Milligan (Charleston, SC)
Grow some chickens, improve your land, make alot of money, eat well and ENJOY LIFE! Learn how in this book and in ALL of Joel Salatins' books!
Great start August 3, 2008
F. Fletcher (Loxley, AL USA)
Joel does a great job overall. I'd just like to see better illustrations, especially concerning pen construction and processing the birds. I highly recommend newbies take a look at Herrick Kimball's [...]. He does a great job illustrating how to process the birds, with great pictures. Also, the homemade plucker, which he designed, is great. It plucks 3 birds in about 10-15 seconds! Now that's good stuff! But I'd highly recommend Joel's book, in spite of the poor illustrations. Maybe he should have a talk with his publisher and put out a new edition. We just did our first 50 Cornish X Rocks, largely based on his methods and it went off without a hitch...well, I accidentally ran over a couple of birds with the pen as I moved it. So, those were a couple of "hitches", but some of the little buggers just didn't want to march to my well-sung Marine Corps marching songs! Imagine that! So, the little non-hackers went off to join Colonel Sanders in a better place. Maybe he can get them to march:)
Pastured Poultry Profits July 30, 2008
Diana M. Bartram (Seattle Wa)
I love this book, It has great information in it about all sorts of different ideas for the Farm, for making it work without added Machinery. It is focused on Poultry and touches on other thing (Just enough to make you want to get the other books that Joel Salatin has written; which I have done). This Is my first year of doing Chickens and I had good success with them, using Joel's book. It is important to read the appendix there is updated information. Some of the product that he mentioned in his book are very hard to find here local to me.
 outdated too basic info June 19, 2008
Lindy (NY)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have in the past raised tractor chickens & beef and after a slow down in our main income source have decided to do some of this again.
Although this book has some good pointers for the very new farmer, the info for marketing is outdated and written before this writer had any knowlege of the best marketing tool of our time.... the internet.
Frankly, that is what I expected to find here and there was nothing but folksy "sell off the farm marketing", which certainly has its place but is antiquated and the author has a touch of old fashioned farmer arrogance, which is too common in this field and certainly not helpful. I found this for the most part to be too simple, boring and a waste of money.
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