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

ISBN: 0962464856

Author: Foreman, Patricia L.

Condition: New

Chickens have become the mascot of local food supply movements. All across America municipalities are allowing and even encouraging residents to keep laying hens within city limits. Increasingly, keeping hens is becoming a part of the green movement . City Chicks shows how you 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 Chicken Tractor, Day Range Poultry, Backyard Market Gardening and A Tiny Home to Call Your Own.