City Chicks

Chickens have become the mascot of the local food movement. A desire
for sustainable, clean, wholesome food and superior soil quality has led
more and more suburban and city dwellers to keep laying hens in their
backyards 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 care of your chickens and find out where to buy them.
Learn how to be a chicken whisperer.
Improve your garden soil for super yields, superior flavor, and
optimal nutrition.
Recycle food, grass clippings and yard waste, make compost
and help reduce trash going to landfills, saving millions of
municipal taxpayer dollars.
Help save millions of municipal tax payer dollars by diverting
food and yard waste from landfills; instead create compost -
with the help of your flock.
Raise baby chicks with items you already have.
Avoid getting roosters and why you don't want them.
Learn how to be a Poultry Primary Health Care Practitioner.
Make and use effective and inexpensive treatments for your flock
as described in the Poultry's Pharmacy.
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-agro-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 remarkable trend-setting book for poultry
lovers and urban agriculturists.
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.