City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-reyclers, and Local Food Producers - Softcover

Patricia L. Foreman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962464856 ISBN 13: 9780962464850

Publisher: Good Earth Publications, Inc., 2010

Synopsis

There are a lot of books about chickens, but City Chicks is the ONLY book that tells you how to employ them using their skill sets. Urban agriculture is on the rise and City Chicks shows how to enable local food supply by keeping family flocks of chickens as garden helpers, compost creators, bio-recyclers, and local food suppliers. How-to detail throughout all 460 pages on keeping, employing, growing food for, and enjoying backyard poultrys. Chickens are the mascot of the local food movement. A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food and superior soil quality has led more and more suburban and city dwellers to keep laying hens in their backyards and gardens. Across America municipalities are allowing, and even encouraging, residents to keep laying hens within city limits. Learn how you can: Develop your own Chicken Have-More Plan. Have fresh, heart-healthy eggs, daily from your backyard home flock. Employ your chicken s skill sets as garden workers, organic pesticiders, herbiciders, fertilizers, compost creators and top soil enhancers. Become a chicken whisperer. Save millions of tax payer dollars by using chickens to divert food and yard waste from landfills and waste management systems. Be a Primary Poultry Health Care Practitioner to save on vet bills. The Poultry s Pharmacy shows you how to make and use effective, inexpensive home treatments. Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within your town or city. Avoid roosters and why you don t want them. Do much, much more with chickens than you ever thought possible, including outrageous chicken tricks. Learn how others: Have built urban chicken tractors, hen huts, condos and chicken chateaus to blend in with neighborhood landscape and architecture. Join in urban eco-agri-tourism with annual coop & garden home tours for fund raising. Start or join local poultry clubs. Keep small flocks to help preserve endangered breeds of chickens. Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within their town s limits. By the co-author of Chicken Tractor, Backyard Market Gardening, Day Range Poultry and the Co-Host of the Chicken Whisperer Backyard Poultry and Sustainable Lifestyles Talk Show. City Chicks is a revolutionary way of keeping and using chickens by thinking outside the coop and inside the gardens . Over 100 photos, drawings, and tables give visual clarity. The imaginative and entertaining style of writing is combined with handson, real-life experience to bring you one of the most complete and authorative books on micro-flock management. The chicken is still having her moment as the mascot and darling of the always-cresting locavore food movement. Many people are struggling to learn how, exactly, to care for her. Enter City Chicks; Penelope Green, New York Times, September 2009.

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From the Back Cover

Chickens have become the mascot of local food supply movements. All across America, cities are allowing – and even encouraging – residents to keep laying hens within city limits. Increasingly, keeping a few backyard hens is becoming a part of the “Green movement”.City Chicks shows how you can: · Have fresh, heart-healthy eggs, daily from your backyard home flock. · Employ your chicken’s “skill sets” as garden workers, organic pesticiders, herbiciders, fertilizers, compost creators and top soil enhancers.· Take the best care of your flock and become a Chicken Whisperer.· City Chicks also explores the civic side of chickens and how they can be employed as clucking city workers helping to divert food and yard waste from landfills. This can save millions of tax payer dollars. · Be a Primary Poultry Health Care Practitioner to save on vet bills. The Poultry’s Pharmacy shows you how to make and use effective, inexpensive home treatments.· Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within your town or city.· Avoid roosters and why you don’t want them, · Do much, much more with chickens than you ever thought possible, including outrageous chicken tricks.City Chicks is a revolutionary way of keeping and using chickens by thinking “outside the coop” and “inside the city”. Over 120 photos, drawings, sketches, and tables give visual clarity. Other books by the author are: Chicken Tractor, Day Range Poultry, Backyard Market Gardening and A Tiny Home to Call Your Own.

About the Author

Patricia L. Foreman was born and raised in Indiana. She graduated from Purdue University with degrees in Pharmacy and Agriculture (Animal Science, genetics and nutrition). At Indiana University s Graduate School of Public and Environmental Affairs she earned a Master of Public Affairs (MPA). Her majors were in Health Systems Administration and International Affairs. She completed the Virginia Master Gardener s program in 1999. Pat has kept poultry for over 20 years. Her experience includes having owned and operated a small-scale farm raising free range, organic layers, broilers and turkeys. She keeps a backyard flock of heritage chickens to help with the kitchen garden and egg supply. Her many awards include a Fulbright Scholarship, and appointment as a Presidential Executive Management Intern. She served as a Science Officer for the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, and has worked in over 30 countries conducting workshops and consulting services. Agencies funding projects she has worked on include the U.S. Agency for International Development, World Bank, World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. Pat is the co-author of many alternative, sustainable agriculture books including: Chicken Tractor, Day Range Poultry, Backyard Market Gardening and A Tiny Home to Call Your Own. Her next book, due out in 2011, is Garden Chicks: Employing Chickens in Local Food Production Systems. She loves to talk and is co-host, along with Andy Schneider, of the Chicken Whisperer Backyard Poultry and Sustainable Lifestyles Talk Show. She has been a guest on many radio talk shows across the country, including NPR. She is available to give presentations, facilitate workshops and seminars, and provide consulting services. Contact her through Good Earth Publications.

About this edition

• Publisher: Good Earth Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0962464856
• ISBN 13: 9780962464850
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464