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How to Raise Free-Range Chickens
About Me and My Farm
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Brought to
you by Robert Plamondon, robert@plamondon.com.
Our farm is in Oregon's Coast Range, which has a mild climate that allows our free-range hens to maintain an outdoor lifestyle year-round, even during rare winter snow, as shown in the photo. We have a flock of about 500 chickens in our free-range egg operation, and around 1500 pastured broilers during the six-month broiler season. We also raise a batch of turkeys for Thanksgiving. We've been raising free-range eggs and pastured broilers since the mid-Nineties We've been rediscovering the old-time American free-range poultry methods developed during poultrykeeping's Golden Age between 1900 and 1960. We read pretty much the entire collection of ancient poultry books and magazines in Oregon State University's Valley Library, and tried or adapted as many of these as possible. We've put our findings up on this site. |
One of the things we learned is that pasture-raised chickens product better-tasting eggs and meat, and are a lot more fun to deal with than
confined chickens. We also discovered many cases where simpler, more inexpensive methods worked as well as complex and expensive ones, and often better.
Build Chicken Coops and Brooders
Our most popular section! Information on building your own coops and brooder boxes, especially free-range coops
and insulated brooders that brood more chicks, more comfortably, on less heat!
Frequently
Asked Questions About Chickens
Basic information about hens and small-flock poultrykeeping
in general.
Norton Creek Press
My very own poultry publishing company! It includes one book I wrote myself and three poultry classics that were long out of print and impossible to find until I reissued them. I've read hundreds of poultry books, and these are the pick of the litter.Suppliers and Resources
A wide variety of folks we've done business with and recommend highly.
Presentation:
Profitable Free-Range Eggs
How we raise free-range eggs on our farm. (Adobe PDF format).
Recommended
Reading
Must-have books of special interest to the free-range, hobby farmer, or backyard poultrykeeper.
Some of them are published by us, under our Norton
Creek Press label!
Press Coverage of Our Farm and Methods
Mid-Valley Sunday (August, 2001)
Our Farm's Web Page
Showing our newsletter and other items of interest.Chicken Jokes
Our own collection of chicken jokes, most of which are actually funny!
Rural Living Tips
Practical advice on various topics.
I Have Five Web Sites, How About You?
Ever think about having your own Web site? It's easy!
I tell you how it's done
in a brief online article.
 Fresh-Air Poultry Houses More Information |
 We Wanted a Farm M. G. Kains More Information |
 Success With Baby Chicks Robert Plamondon More Information |
 Genetics of the Fowl F. B. Hutt More Information |
 Ten Acres Enough Edmund Morris More Information |
 Feeding Poultry G.F. Heuser More Information |
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