Summing up 2011's chicken experiments

Those of you who have been following my chicken experiments here all year will probably find most of this old news, but I summed up the year's data over on my homesteading blog.  Drop by for information on:

• Getting started with rotational chicken pastures
• Plants chickens like to eat (a seasonal review)
  
• Sustainability of meat chickens (with information on dark to white meat ratio in heirloom breeds)
  
• Feed conversion rate for homegrown broilers (with data from a couple of batches I didn't share here yet)
• Chicken incubation questions
• Causes of chick death in the brooder
• Deep bedding for chickens
• Preview of chicken experiments for 2012 (lots of questions I hope to answer in the next year)

Finally, you might be interested in this Appalachian forest pasture study, even though it uses sheep instead of chickens.  That should be enough reading to last you all weekend!