Pastured Poultry - Preface
A Heifer Project International Case Study Booklet

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ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
PO Box 3657
Fayetteville, AR 72702
Phone: (800) 346-9140
FAX: (479) 442-9842
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 Heifer Project International
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Little Rock, AR 72203
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This booklet was compiled by Anne Fanatico of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) as a guide and summary of the "Integrating Pastured Poultry into the Farming Systems of Limited Resource Farmers" project. The project was conducted from 1996-99 by NCAT and Heifer Project International (HPI). It was funded by Grant #LS96-79 from the USDA's Southern Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program.
Chicken at scalder
Building a mobile pen Chicken at eviscerator
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HPI is a private non-profit corporation dedicated to community development through sustainable livestock production.
The headquarters is located in Little Rock, AR.
NCAT is a nonprofit organization with offices at Butte, MT and Fayetteville, AR, which manages a host of public programs dealing with sustainable agriculture, along with energy conservation, low-income energy and housing issues, and sustainable community development. NCAT's role through its projects is to improve the economic well-being and quality of life of urban and rural residents,
all the while working to improve the environment and conserve America's natural resources.
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Foreward and Acknowledgments

This booklet summarizes the experiences of 35 Southern farm families who from 1996-1999 participated in a project titled "Integrating Pastured Poultry into the Farming Systems of Limited Resource Farmers."

The experience proved favorable for 27 of the project families who continue to raise range poultry for home-use and for sale to growing customer bases.

We hope this booklet will prove useful as a decision-making guide for other farmers interested in adding diversity and improving profits in their own agricultural enterprises through pastured poultry production.
We are thankful to many people who assisted in compiling this booklet. Especially helpful were the farmer grantees who took special care to keep close records of their enterprises and share that information for the benefit of potential producers.


Other people, organizations and agencies who made special contributions to the project are the National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information, Extension agents and staff of Tuskegee University, Southern University, Kentucky State University, South Carolina State University, Florida A&M University, and Fort Valley State University; members of the American Pastured Poultry Producers Association; and the Joel Salatin family of Swoope, VA.

We thank those individuals who were so generous in sharing photographs and slides they snapped during field days, trainings and activities on their farms. Their work helps greatly to tell the pastured poultry story and appears throughout this booklet.

We are also very appreciative to the four farm families in the "Featured Farmers" chapter of this booklet. We thank them for sharing both the trials and the triumphs they experienced while learning the techniques of raising, processing, and marketing poultry on-farm as a way to supplement their income.
The ATTRA Project is operated by the National Center for Appropriate Technology under a grant from the Rural Business - Cooperative Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. These organizations do not recommend or endorse products, companies, or individuals. ATTRA is located in the Ozark Mountains on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, at PO Box 3657, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 72702. ATTRA staff prefer to receive requests for information about sustainable agriculture via the toll-free number 800-346-9140.
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