Sustainable Production:
Grower Resource List

Compiled by Debbie Roos, Agricultural Extension Agent

Pastured Poultry


Books and Publications

All publications are available at major bookstores (e.g., amazon.com, etc.) unless otherwise noted.

  • Pastured Poultry Profits, by Joel Salatin

  • Free Range Poultry Production and Marketing: A Guide to Raising, Processing, and Marketing Premium Quality Chicken and Turkey and Eggs, by Herman Beck Chenoweth

  • Success with Baby Chicks, by Robert Plamadon; available at Plamondon.com

  • Feeding Poultry: The Classic Guide to Poultry Nutrition, by G. F. Heuser.

  • The Dollar Hen: The Classic Guide to American Free-Range Egg Farming, by
    Milo M. Hastings and Robert Plamondon

  • Grit!, bimonthly newsletter published by American Pastured Poultry Producers Association (APPPA); to subscribe, contact APPPA at 256-751-3925 or grit@apppa.org

  • Taking Stock of Waterfowl: The Results of the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy’s Domestic Duck and Goose Census, by Marjorie Bender, D. Phillip Sponenberg, and Donald Bixby; to order, call American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC) at 919-542-5704 or order on-line from ALBC.

  • Wild Predators? Not in my Backyard!, by Eugene L. Fytche; to order, call Fytche Enterprises at 613-256-1798 or email efytche@sympatico.ca.

Organizations

 

Websites & Listservs

  • North Carolina Pastured Poultry Listserv
    email discussion group for farmers, educators, researchers, and others dedicated to pastured poultry production; to subscribe, email Debbie Roos

 

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Regulations


Hatcheries

American Livestock Breeds Conservancy maintains extensive lists of hatcheries for specific breeds. Contact ALBC at 919-542-5704 or albc@albc-usa.org for more information.


  • North Carolina Hatcheries

    • ED Snider Hatchery
      336-622-2942; Liberty, NC
      point-of-lay production hens; available several times each year by arrangement

    • Piedmont Feed and Garden Center
      919-942-7848; Chapel Hill, NC
      not a hatchery, but a supplier of heritage breed chicks

  • National Hatcheries

    • Freedom Rangers
      204-729-8868; Manitoba, Canada (U.S. hatchery located in West Union, Iowa)
      hatchery for pasture-raised broilers

    • Ideal Poultry Breeding Farms, Inc.
      254-697-6677; Cameron, TX
      rare breed hatchery for chickens, bantams, turkeys, chukars, quail, and ducks

    • Mt. Healthy Hatcheries
      800-451-5603; Mt. Healthy, OH
      rare breed hatchery for chickens, turkeys, geese, and pheasants

    • Murray McMurray Hatchery
      800-456-3280; Webster City, IA
      rare breed hatchery for chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and gamebirds; also offer equipment, feed, supplies, books, and videos

    • Privett Hatchery
      877-PRIVETT; Portales, NM
      rare breed hatchery for chickens, bantams, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guineas

    • Reich Poultry Farms, Inc.
      717-426-3411; Marietta, PA
      hatchery for chicks, turkeys, ducks, and geese

    • Shank's Hatchery
      800-344-2449; Hubbard, OR
      hatchery for large fowl, bantams, turkeys, waterfowl, pheasants, chukars, bobwhite quail, and guineas


Feed Suppliers

  • Blount Fertilizer and Feed
    800-682-8505; Bethel, NC
    bagged poultry feed (non-medicated, no animal by-products); will do custom blends

  • Braswell Milling Company
    800-849-9057; Nashville, NC
    bulk certified organic poultry feed; will do custom blends

  • Countryside Natural Products
    888-699-7088; Fishersville, VA
    certified organic livestock and poultry feed; certified organic fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides

  • Efland Milling Company
    919-732-7893; Efland, NC
    bagged poultry feed; certified organic poultry feed

  • Hurdle Mills
    336-364-7484; Hurdle Mills, NC
    bulk and bagged poultry feed (non-medicated, no animal by-products)

  • Southern States Feed Mill
    919-688-2432; Durham, NC
    bulk pelleted poultry feed (non-medicated, no animal by-products)

  • Southern States
    919-742-2128; Siler City, NC
    bagged poultry feed (non-medicated, no animal by-products)

Equipment and Supplies

  • Jeffers, Inc.
    800-533-3377; Dothan, AL
    incubators, brooders, feeders, waterers, and much more

  • Pactiv
    888-828-2850; Lake Forest, IL
    egg cartons

  • Tek Supply
    800-835-7877; Dyersville, IA
    poultry supplies


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This document is a partial list of resources for growers and does not imply endorsement by North Carolina State University, North Carolina A&T State University, or North Carolina Cooperative Extension of any of the companies, products, or organizations listed.

         

        This page last updated August 25, 2008.

         

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