With planning and care, you can raise chickens on even the smallest urban plots.
Besides egg and meat production, many gardeners and farmers value chickens for the help they provide -- chickens make short work of weed sprouts and insects on any land they range. Hand-raised chickens are also good pets.
Keeping urban chickens is easier than ever before, with many companies offering a variety of all-in-one chicken coops.
The "chicken tractor", a mobile coop and enclosure, keeps chickens safe and confined while periodically allowing them new areas to range. The "tractor" leaves tilled soil behind it -- the chickens scratch and turn the soil and enrich it with their droppings.
If yours is one of the growing number of families interested in raising chickens for eggs or meat, The Backyard Chicken Book contains all the essential information for the hatching, brooding, rearing, and managing family-sized poultry flocks.
It's true, you can keep chickens and have a beautiful garden, too. And fresh eggs are just one of the many benefits - chickens can help your garden grow and thrive.
Chickens and gardens, working together -- Chickens in your garden: practical considerations -- Designing a chicken-friendly garden -- Landscape materials for chicken gardens -- Plants with purpose -- Innovative chicken housing -- Friends and foes of hens in the garden.
This must-have reference for the small flock owner covers the problems and diseases common to chickens of all breeds and all ages. Practical charts in The Chicken Health Handbook help pin-point common symptoms and causes of disease. An extensive alphabetic listing of diseases provides quick access to treatments and remedies for everything from poor egg production to crooked toe syndrome. - from the back cover
When longtime illustrator and lover of power tools Lauren Scheuer was looking for a project, she got the idea to raise backyard chickens. Her husband and teenage daughter looked on incredulously as coop sketches and chicken-raising books filled their New England home. But when the chicks arrived, the whole family fell in love with the bundles of fluff and the wild adventures began.
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