Hello!!! Welcome to our new blog!

This is a place to learn about keeping backyard poultry AND "Village Chickens". What is the difference? Backyard poultry is pretty much what we are now doing again in North America. That is, keeping a small flock of various poultry in our backyards, small acreages, or farms, for eggs, meat, profit, or all of them! In North America, we don't actually depend on the birds for our main food source, but do it as a "return to the basics" enterprise.

Village Chickens (and other poultry) is what many in the developing world depend on for their main protein sources. Usually the breeds kept are more feral and lay less eggs...... but it does not have to be that way!

Our YOUTUBE videos (http:// youtube.com/eco-ranchusa   show how to live sustainably, for those of us in the West and maintain a healthy, profitable, disease resistant flock for those in the developing world!

In this blog, we hope to provide readers with ideas, techniques and resources that will enable them to get what they want and need from their flocks, while enjoying having the birds share their lives! Please give us your feedback and do post comments, questions and advice!