The Art of Keeping Chickens

If you are looking for a great 4-H project or a way to supplement your income, keeping chickens and selling their eggs and meat would be feasible with just a small section of property.

Chickens that are free-range are all the hype nowadays, and you can make money from selling farm-fresh eggs.

These books will help you do it:

• Poultry Keeping as an Industry for Farmers and Cottagers
• Successful back-yard poultry keeping

And here is a book about raising not only poultry, but other small animals:

• Raising Small Animals for Pleasure and Profit

All of these books are in the public domain.  You could combine the information in them and create an ebook that is relevant to new homesteaders.

Use the books as a course for your older children in agriculture and life-skills.  Start a poultry class at your homeschool co-op.  Or, just use the information to raise your own chickens!