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City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-reyclers, and Local Food Producers |  | Author: Patricia L. Foreman
Publisher: Good Earth Publications, Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 35244
Media: Perfect Paperback
Edition: First
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0962464856
Dewey Decimal Number: 635
EAN: 9780962464850
ASIN: 0962464856
Publication Date: January 1, 2010
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Product Description
Chickens have become the mascot of local food supply movements and City Chicks is helping to lead the way. All across America municipalities are allowing and even encouraging residents to keep family flocks within city limits and to employ chicken skill sets in their communities. Increasingly, chickens are becoming a part of the green movement. Not only for local food supply, but green city managers wanting to save BIG TIME Tax Payer Dollars on solid waste management budgets need only to encourage residents to keep laying hens. Why? Because one chicken eats about 7 pounds of food waste a month. A few hundred households keeping family flocks can not only turn kitchen waste into eggs, but the chicken manure can be combined with leaf, grass clippings and other yard waste and transformed into compost and top soil for growing gardens. City Chicks explores in detail the civic side of chickens and how they can be employed as clucking city workers helping to divert food and yard waste from landfills and help decrease the global warming methane gas produced in landfills. The Defense Department has declared that America s food and water supply is one of our most vulnerable parts. Chickens become National Defenders by enabling a wholesome local food supply. Chickens serve as Emergency Preparedness Partners as well. If a disaster happens and you have a family flock of chickens you will still be able to have a meal of high quality protein even though the food lines are severed and your local grocery store shelves are bare. Employ your chickens skill sets as garden workers, organic pesticiders, herbiciders, fertilizers, compost creators and top soil enhancers. Most of the plant enhancement chemicals applied in commercial food production are oil based. Chickens can help decrease our national dependence on oil on by substituting and employing their remarkable skill sets. Learn how in City Chicks. 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. Do much, much more with chickens than you ever thought possible including outrageous chicken tricks. You can become a Chicken Whisperer. It s time to think outside the coop and inside the gardens. 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 include: Chicken Tractor, Day Range Poultry, Backyard Market Gardening and A Tiny Home to Call Your Own.
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Hard Working Hens July 20, 2010
Ammie Carpenter
Great book! Very helpful for novices. This well researched book backed with years of practical experience is very accessible and a great addition to any animal care library. Cluck! Cluck!
Great Info for chicken newbie! July 19, 2010
R. Patterson
I've had this book for a few weeks now and am still working my way through it--I'm not yet a chicken owner, but have hopes of getting my micro flock started next spring. My demographic--mom with young kids, live in town (have just purchased an empty lot adjacent to my home), concerned with local food concerns. This book is written for me! Really great info and I love the fact that the first few chapters deal with soil and composting (even before talking about egg production or raising baby chicks). Great ideas on how to incorporate your flock into your gardens to build up soil and for pest management (day ranging). In fact, the compost aspect of chickens is so exciting, that eggs seem like just a side benefit. If you are new to chickens and wondering about the benefits of a micro flock, I would say this book is for you. I love it!
 Hens beyond just egg laying machines ... June 15, 2010
L. Wilkinson (California USA)
An anthology of practical advice for the urban/suburban chicken owner. The author gives a compelling argument that hens are good for a lot more than just eggs -- they're also natural herbicides, pesticides, and composters. The gentle interweaving of bits of "chicken humor" leaves you feeling good and inspired to let your chickens be all they can be.
It's nice to have it and read it May 4, 2010
Erminio Di Lodovico (Caracas, VENEZUELA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's a good book. Simple and to the point. It will show different "levels of commitment" in your chicken pen. A good read.
city chicks April 21, 2010
Ann A. Braun (Los Angeles)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book. A step by step manual for raising very small flocks of chickens.
Author has a nice sense of humor.
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