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Have you been looking for a good book about raising some urban chickens? Allow me to recommend City Chicks by Patricia Foreman.
If you are interested in raising your own backyard chickens and being a part of the local food movement, then this book is for YOU! City Chicks contains 460 pages of the most relevant information that an urban chicken owner or city homesteader could ever want.
Chickens can do so much more than provide your household with delicious fresh eggs. This book will introduce you to the humble chicken as a garden worker, organic pest destroyer, compost creator, top soil enhancer and all around hero of the homestead. With over 120 photos, drawings, sketches and tables to teach you what you need to know about properly care for your birds.
Chapters on selecting, housing, feeding, health, incubation and hatching, brooding, and even heritage breeds, will soon have even a beginner feeling comfortable caring for a few hens. There is even a chapter devoted to legalizing city chickens were they are not currently allowed. In 1918 the US government pushed for "two chickens in every backyard per person" as part of our "patriotic duty" in times of war. The time for this local safe food source has come again!
I have read literally dozens of books dedicated to the backyard chicken, trying to find the best resource for my customers. This is the one to buy!
$22.50 plus $4.00 shipping within the US by Media Mail
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