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City Chicks: Keeping Micro-Flocks of Laying Hens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-Recyclers and Local Food Suppliers
Chickens have become the mascot of the local food movement. A desirefor sustainable, clean, wholesome food and superior soil quality has ledmore and more suburban and city dwellers to keep laying hens in theirbackyards and gardens.Learn how you can: Be close to your food source with a continuous supply of fresh, heart-healthy eggs to feed yourself and others. Take the best...more
Paperback, 466 pages
Published
October 18th 2009
by Good Earth Publications
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The aim of City Chicks is to encourage a new generation of urban hen keepers. Rather than just thinking of hens as a source of eggs (or chicken dinners!), Patricia Foreman wants us to invite a micro-flock of chicken workers into our gardens and yards. She believes that their skill set solves a lot of our gardening and environmental problems.
Backyard hens will produce high quality eggs (know where your food comes from!) and help to keep your garden free from weeds and pests while adding...more
Backyard hens will produce high quality eggs (know where your food comes from!) and help to keep your garden free from weeds and pests while adding...more
Full disclosure: I work with Pat on Andy Schneider's Chicken Whisperer radio program, where I talk about traditional breeds on the fourth Tuesday of every month. She's capable, efficient, direct and funny. She's written an excellent book on raising chickens in urban and suburban areas. She's included so much of her experience and research that it's got something for everyone who has or wants to have chickens. It deserves a place on every poultry-lover's bookshelf, right next to mine!
Loaded with information, but at 450+ pages, could have stood some serious editing. Facts get repeated a bunch of times. There are some grammatical errors (like "hay bails" -- oof). And the book seems to get sidetracked, like a chapter with case studies on large-scale chicken composting facilities, while interesting, aren't really of much use, other than to go, "huh, that's cool." That aside, the rest of the book is filled with good information on everything from why you shoul...more
Fantastic, thorough guide about keeping manageable-sized flocks in the urban environment. Its hard to find a detailed, well-researched, educated guide about the particulars of raising small flocks, no less in city limits, and this book hits the nail right on the head. Not only did I read it straight through before acquiring a flock, but now that we have chicks, I've consulted it multiple times. Definitely recommend.
This was all the chicken book I needed. She covers every question I had, and several that I didn't think to ask. We literally got piles of books on chicken care from the library, and you know this one is enough for me. I love the section on medical care. She's a real do-it-yourselfer, who has never brought a chicken to the vet. This would be a great reference book as there are a lot of recipes, for feed, medicine, etc.
Fairly comprehensive reference for prospective or current urban/suburban keepers of chickens. Kind of like talking to your neighbor informally rather than reading information well supported by data, but valuable due to the dearth of books on the subject.
Great book. I got so excited that we built a very nice hen house and bought 8 chickens which we let out each evening to roam around in the yard. It's been fun. Patricia Foreman tells you just about everything you need to know to get started.
Loved this book. A must read for chicken owners. Humorous writing style, full of facts and topics I haven't yet seen in any other chicken books I have read. Thumbs up!
Great information. Now I just have to find the time.
Of all of the chicken books I have read these last few weeks, this is one of the best. Clear, practical advice, well organized and easy to follow.
Finding out all I can about having city chickens in my backyard.
I had to order this one from Amazon. I think my future chickens will thank me.
I had to order this one from Amazon. I think my future chickens will thank me.
An excellent guide to raising chickens. Lots of good, basic info, including thoughts on how to easily use chicken manure in your garden. Also offers a comprehensive list of types of chickens, how well they lay, their personalities, etc.
Great resource for anyone who wants to start keeping a small flock of chickens for egg laying. Covers housing, brooding baby chicks, feeding from chicks to adult chickens, using chickens as garden helpers and more. You'll return to it for info over and over.
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