Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide To Happy Hens and Healthy Soil by Andy Lee and Pat Foreman

"A chicken tractor is a bottomless portable pen that fits over your garden beds. Just set it wherever you need help in your garden. The chickens peck and scratch the soil to clean your beds, eat pest bugs and weed seeds, and fertilize the beds with their manure. Best of all, they provide eggs and meat with that old-fashioned flavour and home-grown goodness.

This is a revolutionary, practical hands-on book for gardeners and poultry growers. It has already helped thousands of gardeners have better gardens and has literally changed the lives of millions of chickens all over the world."

Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide by Rick and Gail Luttmann

"Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you've ever tasted. The answer is chickens - endearing birds that require but a modest outlay of time, space and food.

As they learned to raise chickens, Gail and Rick Luttmann came to realize the need for a comprehensive but clear and non technical guide. Their book covers all the basics in a light and entertaining style, from housing and feeding through incubating, bringing up chicks, butchering and raising chickens for show.

Throughout the book, the Luttmanns express their wonder at the personalities of chickens - the role of the brash protector played by the roosters, and the instinctive motherliness of the hens. Given some freedom and attention, these birds can become much more than the egg-and-meat machines of commercial hatcheries and broiler factories. Chickens provide backyard farmers with enjoyable pastime, as well as a supply of good food."

Keep Chickens - Tending Small Flock in Cities, Suburbs and Other Small Spaces by Barbara Kilarski

"Many folks who keep urban fowl... find peace in watching their feathered friends scrabble and strut. They share organic eggs with neighbors and they take extraordinary delight in harvesting poultry poop for their garden" - Seattle Times

Barbara Kilarski, a woman who is passionate about the little flock she raises in Portland, Oregon, provides the detailed information every aspiring chicken keeper needs to know. She identifies which breeds are happiest in small spaces; gives you simple instructions on feeding and caring for chickens; lists the equipment you'll need; discusses coop design, from the simple to the stylish; teaches you how to gather eggs; explains how chickens can help fertilize your garden while eliminating weeds and garden pests; and gives you the low-down on how to start a mini-chicken ranch that complies with city ordinances. Everything you need to know about raising healthy chickens in a small space is in this book. So if you've got a yen for your own flock of hens, check out Keep Chickens!"

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