Cummings Lane Farm's Resources
On this page, we refer you to resources that have helped us, whether with regard to the technical aspects of farming or doing so on a budget, or website design and functionality. You will also find many of the products or services we recommend in our articles or social media posts.
Disclosure: some of these links are affiliate links, which means we earn a small commission if you purchase some of these products. That said, we don't recommend anything we haven't tried ourselves, and we are confident that you will find them as useful as we have.
OUR BOOK: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO KEEPING BACKYARD CHICKENS
Since the covid pandemic, many young, would-be farmers joined the fray only to abandon their progress a few years later in the face of increasing costs and mounting debts. We don’t operate that way. Simply put, our advice aims to empower beginners to raise chickens in a cost-efficient manner for the long haul. This is preferable for people and poultry.
What follows in A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Chickens is a distillation of everything we’ve learned since we began chicken farming, along with the essential knowledge we wish we had back when we first started out. While our primary audience is those beginning this journey, we are confident that parts of this manual will prove useful to novices and seasoned poultry veterans alike.
FARMING ON A BUDGET
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