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There are lots of books on keeping chickens, but City Chicks is the only book to tell you how to use and employ chickens in your garden, to create garden and top soil, as clucking civic solid waste management worker and much more.
Urban chickens are in and chickens have become the mascot of the local food movement. But how to take care of them and employ their skill sets? Read City Chicks: Keeping Micro-Flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Creators, Bio-recyclers, and Local Food Suppliers.
City Chicks shows you how to keep, employ and enjoy backyard poultry. Throughout all 464 pages there are photos, diagrams, tables and chicken jokes that make this book an entertaining reference.
A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food and superior soil quality has led more and more suburban and city dwellers to keep chickens 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:
• 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.
• Understand how chickens can be part of a national defense and emergency preparedness strategy.
•Take the best care of your flock.
• Become a Chicken Whisperer including outrageous chicken tricks!
• 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 and Day Range Poultry. City Chicks is a revolutionary way of keeping and using chickens by thinking “outside the coop” and “inside the city”. Over 120 photos, drawings, and tables give you visual clarity and quick learning.
The imaginative and entertaining style of writing is combined with hands-on, real-life experience to bring you one of the most complete and authorative books on micro-flock management.
Reviewed in the New York Times, by Penelope Green. "Another take on Chick Lit. The chicken is still having her moment as the mascot and darling of the always-cresting locavore food movement. But as hipsters and foodies from New York to San Francisco embrace her charms and services — many people are struggling to learn how, exactly, to care for her. Enter City Chicks."
“City Chicks is a revelation! It’s time that someone expertly connected gardening to raising and keeping hens. The two practices go hand in hand. This book is filled with excellent advice so that everyone can confidently practice good earth stewardship, not to mention have a prize garden!” — Michael C. Metallo, President National Gardening Association
“The best solutions today are integrated solutions. City Chicks show how to successfully produce protein along with your garden vegetables while managing waste and increasing soil fertility…a 3-for-1 benefit! — Will Raap Founder, Gardener’s Supply
“Far more than just another book on chickens, City Chicks opens the door to a whole new world of poultry possibilities. Keeping small flocks is good for gardens, muni
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- Published on: 2010-09-24
- Released on: 2010-09-24
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From Oakland, California, to Madison, Wisconsin, to Brooklyn, New York, the backyard buzz is all about urban chicken keeping, and mainstream publications, such as the New York Times and the New Yorker, have chronicled the trend’s growth, especially among members of the local food movement. Foreman, who has authored several urban agriculture and chicken-themed titles, offers a full compendium of everything a novice city chicken farmer needs to start and maintain a coop. Included among the dense but conversational chapters is information on chicken breeding and health, incubation and hatching, becoming a “chicken whisperer,” legal issues, and starting your own profitable “eggribusiness.” Everyone interested in the subject will find something useful here. Experienced chicken keepers will want to add to their own storehouses of knowledge with the vast resource lists, while complete beginners will appreciate the basic advice, such as photos that demonstrate how to hold a chicken. The audience for this may be small right now, but the flock of city-dwelling chicken enthusiasts is growing by the minute, and libraries should be ready to meet the demand. --Gillian Engberg
Review
By PENELOPE GREEN New York Times, September 9, 2009 The chicken is still having her moment as the mascot and darling of the always-cresting locavore food movement. But as hipsters and foodies from New York to San Francisco embrace her charms and services like her ability to consume food scraps and turn them into nitrogen-rich compost much faster than, say, a clutch of earthworms can (and with bucketloads more personality) many people are struggling to learn how, exactly, to care for her. Enter City Chicks: Keeping Micro-Flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-Recyclers and Local Food Suppliers (Good Earth Publications, $22.50). Yes, its title is a mouthful, Creators its author, Patricia Foreman, a pharmacist and author from Lexington, Va., is a very thorough woman. (She has degrees in agricultural science and public affairs and has kept chickens, and written about sustainable agriculture, for two decades.) In an attempt to have the chicken-keeping laws of Lexington changed the city, like many others, considers chickens livestock, which are usually contraband within city limits she took Attila the Hen, a comely and personable fowl (above, with Ms. Foreman), to a city council meeting. The council members, she said, loved the chicken, which purred and preened as she was passed around, but the law remained, to Ms. Foreman s dismay. I think the stakes are high, she said in a telephone interview. We need to change our food supply, manage our trash and get off the oil habit. In her book, Ms. Foreman notes that commercial fertilizers and pesticides are oil-based, but chickens make a richer fertilizer than the commercial variety and are deft weeders and pest eaters. Of course, she said, education is key, to show that chickens are an asset, not a nuisance. --New York Times, September 9, 2009
City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Laying Hens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local Food Suppliers. Reviewed by Jd Belanger, Editor Emeritus Backyard Poultry Magazine. With a title like that, what else is there for a reviewer to say? But seriously, that doesn't even begin to describe everything you ll find in this new book from the co-author (with Andy Lee) of the immensely popular Chicken Tractor and others. This one is quite different, as she helpfully points out in comparing City Chicks with Chicken Tractor and Day Range Poultry. She says the focus is on micro-flocks of laying hens kept in urban backyards and gardens. That might be narrower than the homestead poultry production focus and the commercial focus of the other two, but she still manages to find plenty to fill all 460 lively pages. She does go a short way beyond chickens to do it, but that is not a problem in a book that headlines its interest in compost, recycling and local food. In several sections the central focus is not on chickens, but on how chickens fit in with so many other common needs and concerns of the early 21st century. It s all interesting, and it flows together seamlessly. Where chickens are front and center, we still see a much wider range than most other chicken books present. For example, I wondered why there was a chapter on Home Eggri-Business in a book about micro-flocks what is there to sell? but she starts the chapter by explaining: A backyard flock of three hens can provide enough eggs for a family of four. A micro-flock of 20 can produce enough extra eggs to sell. Aha. A micro-flock is bigger than I d thought. (My only objection would be that most urban flocks are limited to much fewer than 20 birds.) The chapter then goes on to discuss nutritional value of eggs, food safety and food-borne diseases, the unhealthy lifestyles of commercially farmed hens and much more, before running through a list of possible egg buyers, advertising (try giving talks and slide show presentations) all the way to egg st --Various reviewers
City Chicks is a revelation! It s time that someone expertly connected gardening to raising and keeping hens. The two practices go hand in hand. This book is filled with excellent advice so that everyone can confidently prac- tice good earth stewardship, not to mention have a prize garden! Michael C. Metallo, President National Gardening Association The best solutions today are integrated solutions. City Chicks show how to successfully produce protein along with your garden vegetables while managing waste and increasing soil fertility...a 3-for-1 benefit! Will Raap Founder, Gardener s Supply Far more than just another book on chickens, City Chicks opens the door to a whole new world of poultry possibilities. Keeping small flocks is good for gardens, municipalities, education, and the local food movement. City Chicks covers a lot of ground, and is a comprehensive information source. Richard Freudenberger, BackHome Magazine Publisher & Chicken Owner City Chicks shows how local governments can save thousands if not millions of tax-payer dollars that are spent on solid waste management simply by allowing resi-dents to keep hens to help with composting food and leaf and yard waste in their backyards. Mimi Elrod, Ph.D. Mayor, Lexington Virginia The focus is on how chickens fit in with so many other common needs and concerns of our century. This is a book for our times. JD Belanger, Editor Emeritus Backyard Poultry Magazine I love the lightheartedness, the humour, the fun in it, as well as the really solid information that City Chicks pro- vides. I really love it! Marjorie Bender, Research & Technical Program Manager American Livestock Breeds Conservancy City Chicks is an outstanding book that covers it all. It is comprehensive starting with fresh eggs through to raising replacement hens...and integrating chickens into urban agriculture with all the joy in between. Novice and expert will enjoy this book. Andy Marsinko Grandmaster Exhibitor, poultry Judge American Poultry Association Hall of Fame I love that City Chicks details every facet of humane and compassionate care for these lovely birds. The chapters on Poultry Primary Health Care and The Poultry s Pharmacy cover just about all of what you need to know for treating and keeping your flock in optimal health. Well done! Cindy Downes, Veterinarian --Reviews from fans
Reviewed By Jd Belanger Editor Emeritus ith a title like that, what else is there for a reviewer to say? But seriously, that doesn t even begin to describe everything you ll find in this new book from the co-author of the immensely popular Chicken Tractor and others. This one is quite different, as she helpfully points out in comparing City Chicks with Chicken Tractor and Day Range Poultry. She says the focus is on micro-flocks of laying hens kept in urban backyards and gar- dens. That might be narrower than the homestead poultry production focus and the commercial focus of the other two, but she still manages to find plenty to fill all 460 lively pages. Have extra eggs to sell? but she starts the chapter by explaining: A backyard flock of three hens can provide enough eggs for a family of four. A micro-flock of 20 can produce enough extra eggs to sell. Aha. A micro-flock is bigger than I d thought. (My only objection would be that most urban flocks are limited to much fewer than 20 birds.) The chapter then goes on to discuss nutritional value of eggs, food safety and food-borne diseases, the unhealthy lifestyles of commercially farmed hens and much more, before run- ning through a list of possible egg buyers (don t forget your book club and exercise class), advertising (try giving talks and slide show presentations) all the way to egg storage and legal concerns. That s what I call comprehensive. She does go a short way beyond chick- ens to do it, but that s not a problem in a book that headlines its interest in compost, recycling and local food. In several sec- tions the central focus is not on chickens, but on how chickens fit in with so many other common needs and concerns of the early 21st century. It s all interesting, and it flows together seamlessly. There is also an unusual and interest- ing chapter on children and chickens. ( If you are using an adult hen, wrap her in a towel with her legs back. Having the legs extended backwards calms the hen and she can t get a foothold to stand up. The towel restrains her wings so flapping won t scare the child or get a wing tip in the eye. ) That s good advice most dot- ing grandfathers wouldn t even stop to consider. And there s much more. Where chickens are front and center, we still see a much wider range than most other chicken books present. For example, I wondered why there was a chapter on Home Eggri-Business in a book about micro-flocks what is there The author herself summarizes the book very neatly in an epilogue, when she says, City Chicks is written in the same spirit as the Have-More Plan (a magazine-size book from the 1940s that s famous for ushering in one of the great back-to-the-land movements of the past century). It is not just another book about chickens, although it does describe how to keep micro-flocks of laying hens ... (It) has the ambitious intent of exploring three subjects: namely, urban agriculture systems, recycling food and yard waste, and using local resources to preserve and enhance the environment. This is a book that sees chicken- raising as much more than an avian hobby interest like fancy pigeons or canaries. It s a book for our times. Jd Belanger founded the original Backyard Poultry in 1979. His latest book is The Complete Idiot s Guide to Self- Sufficient Living, which will be released in December, 2009. City Chicks; Keeping Micro-flocks of Laying Hens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local Food Suppliers is available from the Backyard Poultry Bookstore. --Backyard Poultry Magazine , August September 2009.
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.
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46 of 47 people found the following review helpful.
THE book to learn about urban chickens!
By Renee F. Wrede
I own sixteen (really!) books and have taken five classes about urban chickens. I found City Chicks to be the most inclusive book of all which makes it a great bargain. The author gives incisive information on care, behavior, housing, and even explains how to best use their ah, manure. Foreman discusses different ways you can use your chickens in your garden, what their coops should have as well as delve deeply into the differences between commercial and homemade feeds. Although there are reference books you should not be without, I feel this book should definitely be included in your library if you want to have backyard chickens.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Brooding chapter alone worth price of book
By Ann M. Huebner
I bought this book a couple of weeks ago, right before my first shipment of day-old chicks arrived. Boy, am I glad I did. The brooding chapter alone told me everything I needed to start my chicks. There is a very good check list of supplies. I took it with me to the Tractor Supply and bought everything I needed. The photos are very helpful; you can see how things are supposed to look. The day-by-day diary was also very helpful. As a first time brooder, I was very nervous, but breaking things down in day-by-day chunks made the process manageable. My friends started chicks last spring. They just followed the generic advice the hatchery sent and ended up with a lot of dead chicks. I haven't had ANY losses. There was one chick dead-on-arrival in the box. The other twenty-four were thriving by the end of the first day.
The other thing I like about Pat's brooder set-up is the hygiene. The aspen shavings keep everything very clean and dry. There is no smell at all.
I heartily recommend this book.
31 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointing
By L. K. Beck
My big disappointment comes from the author not doing her homework, and filling the book with mis-information.
Examples:
The author goes on about Grain Weevils, and says that you will see "small moth-like bugs flying out of a cupboard or around the feed room" and will see "Web-like lumps of white material on feed and feed bags" if you have them. Weevils are beetles, and in their larval stage leave holes in grains and frass (droppings), and the adults can be seen scuttling around the areas where they feed because, being beetles with heavy bodies, they are not super flyers. Oh, they can fly, but it is not their go-to means of travel. Now, pantry moths are small, flying moth-like creatures whose larvae spin webs and create small cocoons, and they feed on the same kinds of grain products that weevils do.
She talks about beet pulp having a low glycemic index, but does not cite any tests or studies that show that chickens benefit by being fed a low-glycemic-index diet. I wish that instead of doing a rant on the glycemic index, instead she had given a list of the essential nutrients needed for chicken health, and then listed what nutrients each of the feeds and additives she recommends contains, particularly since where I live beet pulp is not easy to come by.
She states that apple cider vinegar "lowers the bird's body acidity, making it harder for certain bacteria, parasites, and yeasts to survive," however never explains how feeding an animal a high-acid substance works to lower the acidity. It does not make sense, and since she does not tell us where she gets these ideas from, it is impossible to fact-check her work. And, yes, I know that there are a lot of people out there who want to sell you their diet plan, or supplements, or what-have-you, who say that apple cider vinegar raises the body's pH, but nothing has ever been shown in tests. I am suspicious of anything I am told by someone trying to get his hand into my wallet.
Although there is an impressive Bibliography, there are no footnotes or references to let us know what ideas come from where inc ase we want to learn more than the few paragraphs she put in her book.
Overall, this is a disappointment. The author has based her opinions on pseudo-science, and not on anything that has been tested by the scientific method. She has strong opinions, and states those opinions like law, instead of as a jumping off place for people who want to develop their own methods, or who live in other areas and do not have the same resources available. I stopped reading about 1/3 of the way through because after finding so many places where she did not do her homework, I stopped trusting what she was saying.
There are better books out there, so unless you just want to read this for entertainment, I suggest giving it a pass.
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