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Keep Chickens!: Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and other Small Spaces

by Barbara Kilarski

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Chickens are hot! Kilarski, a woman with a passion for poultry, offers a handbook that is as practical and encouraging as it is witty and entertaining. This book provides the detailed information every aspiring chicken keeper needs to know. 16-page color insert.

Synopsis:

Chickens are hot! There's a chicken-farming boomlet on the rise, with upscale urban and suburban homeowners from every part of the country ordering fancy breeds of chickens, hiring architects to build elegant chicken coops in their backyards, and signing up for classes on how to raise a happy, healthy flock in a small space.

Now Barbara Kilarski, a woman with a passion for poultry, offers a handbook that is as practical and encouraging as it is witty and entertaining. THE TOWN and COUNTRY CHICKEN provides the detailed information every aspiring chickenkeeper needs to know.

Like home-grown vegetables, home-raised chickens put us in touch with our rural past, give us a sense of self-sufficiency, and provide food - eggs! - for the table that is a lot tastier than anything we could find at the supermarket. And chickens are fun! Like dogs, they bond with their owners, and like kids, they do the darnedest things.

Kilarski regales the reader with tales spotlighting the joys of raising chickens, while at the same time explaining the nitty-gritty details of how to be a successful chicken keeper.

Any way you look at it, chickens are a star of the domestic household. They are easy and inexpensive to raise, they don't need much living space, and they provide eggs for free. No dog or cat on the planet can make the same claim.

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 142) and index.

About the Author

A paralegal who is passionate about poultry, Barbara Kilarski has published articles in a variety of print and web venues, mainly in the Pacific Northwest. She lives with The Girls--Lucy (a New Hampshire Red), Whoopee (an AustraLorp), and ZsaZsa (a Barred Plymouth Rock) in Portland, Oregon.

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Chloe, July 1, 2009 (view all comments by Chloe)
She lives in SE Portland, how great is that? An informative book on everything from baby chicks, and where to get them, to building a coop and getting eggs from brooding hens. And there are pictures of chickens. A wonderful guide to start an urban flock with.
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jane-of-the-herbs, April 26, 2009 (view all comments by jane-of-the-herbs)
This book convinced us that we wanted chickens. The author wrote the friendliest chicken raising book we have ever read.
If you want a backyard flock this book is for you!
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edonnery, July 24, 2006 (view all comments by edonnery)
I loved this book! It really explained the joys of keeping chickens in a fun, and easy-to-read way. I bought chickens after reading this book and I have no regrets! A great book and a fun and informative read.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781580174916
Subtitle:
Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and Other Small Spaces
Author:
Kilarski, Barbara
Publisher:
Storey Publishing
Location:
North Adams, Mass.
Subject:
Chickens
Subject:
Agriculture & Animal Husbandry
Copyright:
Edition Description:
paperback
Series Volume:
108-174
Publication Date:
June 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
150
Dimensions:
9.01x6.03x.44 in. .59 lbs.

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