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City Chicks: Keeping Micro-flocks of Laying Hens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-reyclers, and Local Food Producers
City Chicks Keeping Microflocks of Laying Hens as Garden Helpers Compost Makers Bioreyclers and Local Food Producers Author:Patricia Foreman 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. Green city managers wanting to save money on solid waste management budgets need only to encoura... more »ge residents to keep laying hens. Why? Because one chicken eats about 7 pounds of food "waste" a month. A few hundred households keeping micro-flocks of laying hens can not only turn kitchen waste into eggs, but the chicken manure can be combined with coop bedding and yard waste and transformed into compost and top soil for growing gardens. Chickens give communities the potential to divert tons of yard and food biomass "waste" from trash collection and, by doing so, save big-time tax payer dollars! City Chicks shows how you can: have fresh, heart-healthy eggs, daily from your backyard home flock. Employ your chickens 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 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. 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 do not 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.« less