Poultry Raising Basics
The internet offers a wide range of information on how to raise poultry. You'll want to consider whether you want to raise poultry for meat or for eggs. You'll have to consider such issues as housing, fencing, feeding, watering, equipment, all of which can be found in a Google search.If you want to stay a bit closer to home, here are some local resources:
Hatchery: Dunlap Hatchery on Caldwell Boulevard. (www.DunlapHatchery.net)
Feed: Local mills include Zamzows Feed Mill in Meridian and Mathews Feed in Weiser.
The ATTRA (Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas) website has a number of wonderful publications on many agricultural endeavors, including raising poultry. Here's a listing of their current files available for download:
ATTRA Publications
This site includes the following list of publications for download (pdf & html view) along with many other relevant links:ATTRA Publications - Click here to Go There
- Alternative Poultry Production Systems and Outdoor Access
- Arsenic in Poultry Litter: Organic Regulations
- Growing Your Range Poultry Business: An Entrepreneur's Toolbox
- Label Rouge: Pasture-Based Poultry Production in France
- Parasite Management for Natural and Organic Poultry: Coccidiosis
- Avian Influenza in Free-Range and Organic Poultry Production
- Organic Poultry Production in the United States
- Pastured Poultry: An HI Case Study Booklet
- Pastured Poultry Nutrition
- Poultry House Management for Alternative Production
- Poultry: Equipment for Alternative Production
- Equipo para Producción Aviar Alternativa
- Poultry Genetics for Pastured Production
- Range Poultry Housing
- Small Poultry Processing Plants and Services
- Small-Scale Poultry Processing
- Sistemas Avícolas Alternativos con Acceso a Pastura
- El Manejo de Gallineros para la Producción Alternativa