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GROWN A POULTRY GARDEN

Feed is the largest ongoing cost faced by any poultry keeper, but it also offers the biggest opportunity to save. Although it may not be possible to become totally self-sufficient, there are a number of crops you can grow to reduce the feed bill.

The natural foods you can produce are what (the oldest ancestor of our domestic fowl) would have eaten in

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