Download or read book City Chickens written by Christine Heppermann and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just outside of downtown Minneapolis, follow the sounds of crowing and clucking and you will find Mary Britton Clouse’s Chicken Run Rescue. Over the years, Mary and her husband have given hundreds of homeless birds a safe place to rest until they can be adopted by caring families. Each chicken has a story to share, and the debut author Christine Heppermann (who adopted her own chicken) has crafted a spare, moving, and at times humorous text that will open young readers’ eyes and also inspire to help all creatures great and small. Come along and find out why lovable chickens are actually, according to Mary, “the ones who need friends the most.”

Download or read book City Chicks written by Patricia Foreman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Chicks is a remarkable trend-setting book for poultry lovers and urban agriculturists. It combines hands-on, real-life experience to bring you one of the most complete authorative books on micro-flock management.

Download or read book Keep Chickens written by Barbara Kilarski and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how small your lot is, you can keep chickens and enjoy fresh eggs every morning. Barbara Kilarski shares her passion for poultry as she fills this guide with tips and techniques for successfully raising chickens in small spaces. Spotlighting the self-sufficient pleasures of tending your own flock, Kilarski offers detailed information on everything from choosing breeds that thrive in tight quarters and building coops to providing medical care for sick animals. You’ll have fun as you keep happy and productive chickens.

Download or read book Encountering the City written by Jonathan Darling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, classic writings on the city and rich empirical examples, this volume demonstrates why encounters are significant to urban studies, politically, philosophically and analytically. Bringing together a range of interests, from urban multiculture, systems of economic regulation, security and suspicion, to more-than-human geographies, soundscapes and spiritual experience, Encountering the City argues for a more nuanced understanding of how the concept of 'encounter' is used. This interdisciplinary collection thus provides an insight into how scholars' writing on and in the city mobilise, theorise and challenge the concept of encounter through empirical cases taken from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. These cases go beyond conventional accounts of urban conviviality, to demonstrate how encounters destabilise, rework and produce difference, fold together complex temporalities, materialise power and transform political relations. In doing so, the collection retains a critical eye on the forms of regulation, containment and inequality that shape the taking place of urban encounter. Encountering the City is a valuable resource for students and researchers alike.

Download or read book Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer written by Kelly Anne Jones and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.

Download or read book The Chickens Are Coming written by Barbara Samuels and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston and Sophie live in a big city. When they see a sign for chickens that need a home, Mommy says they don’t need to live in the country to raise chickens. And what could be better—pets that lay eggs! So they prepare the coop, tell their friends, and soon enough, the chickens arrive. But it seems that no matter what the children try, these chickens don’t want to be pets, and they refuse to lay eggs. Can anything change their minds? Will the chickens ever feel at home? With bright, funny illustrations and an informative note from author Barbara Samuels, The Chickens are Coming! is a story about doing something new, learning to be patient, and welcoming new members into the family.

Download or read book Your Farm in the City written by The Gardeners of Seattle Tilth and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete book on urban farming, covering everything from growing organic produce and raising chickens, to running a small farm on a city lot or in a suburban backyard. Eating locally and growing one's own food is a rapidly evolving movement in urban settings - Hantz Farms in Detroit has transformed 70 acres of abandoned properties into energy-efficient gardens, and Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, a 6,000-foot vegetable farm in Brooklyn, New York, yields 30 different kinds of produce, while private square-foot farms are cropping up in cities all over the country. Created by Lisa Taylor and the gardeners of Seattle Tilth, Your Farm in the City covers all of the essential information specific to gardening and farming in a city or town. Clear, easy-to-follow instructions guide and inspire even the most inexperienced urbanite in how to grow and harvest all types of produce, flowers, herbs, and trees, as well as how to raise livestock like chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats, and honeybees. Important information particular to gardening in a city or town is included, such as planning and maximizing limited space, building healthy soil, managing irrigation, understanding zoning laws, outwitting urban pests, and being a considerate farming neighbor. With 100 two-color instructional illustrations throughout and dozens of vital resources, Your Farm in the City is the most practical, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow guide to the burgeoning trend of urban farming.

Download or read book Chickens 2nd Edition written by Sue Weaver and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hobby Farms Chickens: Tending a Small-Scale Flock for Pleasure and Profit is geared toward the hobby farmer looking to begin his or her own flock of chickens on a small farm or even backyard. Author Sue Weaver, who keeps various exotic breeds and countless barnies on her farm, is an expert on all things livestock and an avowed chicken fanatic. This photo-filled guide begins with “Chickens 101” and details the physiology of chickens, members of the Phasianidea family, providing beginning hobby farmers with a basic education in the chicken’s unique physical makeup (from wings and feathers to beaks and digestive tracts), behavior, mating, and its unexpected high intelligence. The author offers advice on choosing the right types of chickens to get started: meat, egg, or dual purpose, or maybe even “just for pets.” The book is an excellent resource for selecting which breed of chicken is best for the hobby farmer, based on the birds’ traits, such as aggression, personality, noise factor, tolerance for heat, confinement, cold, etc. Chickens also provides information on selecting or building a suitable chicken coop for the hobby farmer’s brood, outlining the basic requirements (lighting, ventilation, flooring, waterers, insulation, safety, and so forth). A detailed chapter on feeding chickens offers essential guidance on nutrition, commercial feeds, supplements, and water requirements. For the chicken hobby farmer looking to start with a clutch of baby chicks (from his own hen or an outside source), the author provides excellent info on incubators and hatching as well as all of the accommodations and preparation required for hens in the nest box. A chapter on selling eggs and broilers provides timetables, requirements, and dos and don’ts to get a hobby farmer’s business off on the right foot. All chicken keepers will find the chapter on health of particular value, with expert advice on preventing common problems and dealing various maladies and diseases. Much detailed information about all of the topics in the book is encapsulated in sidebars. A glossary of over 125 terms plus a detailed resource section of chicken and poultry associations, books, and websites complete the volume. Fully indexed.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide To Raising Chickens written by Jerome D. Belanger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will flock to this book Raising chickens is a growing trend hitting urban and suburban areas, as well as the country. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Raising Chickens covers every aspect of raising chickens, whether one lives in the country, suburb, or city. People wanting their own supply of organic, additive-free, free-range eggs want to know how to keep their chickens healthy and egg producing. • How to choose what to start with-chicks, pullets, or hens • How best to feed and water • Coverage of the most popular breeds • Everything about eggs, including how to sell them

Download or read book City Farmer written by Lorraine Johnson and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "City Farmer celebrates the new ways that urban dwellers are getting closer to their food. Not only are backyard vegetable plots popping up in places long reserved for lawns, but some renegades are even planting their front yards with food. People in apartments are filling their balconies with pots of tomatoes, beans, and basil, while others are gazing skyward and "greening" their rooftops with food plants. Still others are colonizing public spaces, staking out territory in parks for community gardens and orchards, or convincing school boards to turn asphalt school grounds into "growing" grounds. Woven through the book are the stories of guerrilla urban farmers in various cities of North America who are tapping city trees for syrup, gleaning fruit from parks, foraging for greens in abandoned lots, planting heritage vegetables on the boulevard, and otherwise placing food production at the centre of the urban community. Additional stories describe the history of urban food production in North America, revealing the roots of our current hunger for more connection with our food, and the visionaries who have directed that hunger into action. Throughout the book, sidebars offer practical tips for how to compost, how to convert a lawn into a vegetable bed, and what edible plants are easy to grow with children, among other topics."--

Download or read book Free Range Chicken Gardens written by Jessi Bloom and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If your garden fantasies involve chickens, Jessi Bloom is here to make those dreams come true.” —The New York Times Many gardeners fear chickens will peck away at their landscape. But you can keep chickens and have a beautiful garden, too! In this essential handbook, award-winning garden designer Jessi Bloom offers step-by-step instructions for creating a beautiful and functional space while maintaining a happy, healthy flock. Free-Range Chicken Gardens covers everything a gardener needs to know, from the basics of chicken keeping and creating the perfect chicken-friendly garden design to building innovative coops.

Download or read book City Oasis written by Barrett Williams and published by Barrett Williams. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step off the concrete streets and into "City Oasis," a transformative guide that will take you on a verdant journey of creating your personal paradise in the pulsing heart of the urban jungle. This enriching eBook invites you to reimagine what it means to live sustainably amidst skyscrapers and cab honks, as it meticulously unravels the art and science of urban homesteading. Uncover the secrets of turning any nook, rooftop, or balcony into a flourishing homestead with a vision that blooms from the introductory chapters, casting light on the vibrant potential that city living can hold. Witness the transformative power of urban homesteading through riveting case studies and discover how challenges can morph into verdant victories. Embark on a green-thumbed odyssey in "City Oasis," where practical wisdom marries poetic possibility. Pioneering the cultivation of healthy urban soil under your fingertips, the text sows seeds of wisdom on composting and introduces worm-powered vermicomposting. It won’t just be plants that will find new roots — you too will be grounded in an enriched understanding of urban ecology. Are you a city dweller with makeshift square footage? Fear not, for "City Oasis" is your guide through maximizing your space; from bespoke container gardening strategies to avant-garde vertical green walls, it lays out a rich versatile tapestry of plant selection tailored for urban confines. Learn to harness microclimates and navigate city ordinances; every page is a strategic stepping stone to build your urban Eden. Dive deep into chapters that serve as your handbook for miniature orchards and explore the world of urban livestock, including practical beekeeping. "City Oasis" will walk you through the integration of innovative practices like aquaponics and hydroponics, ensuring that cutting-edge sustainability is within arm's reach. Extend your growing season in the city skyline as you unlock techniques for all-year bounty and pioneer water management systems that are a triumph of eco-conscious innovation. "City Oasis" illuminates pathways to conserve, harness, and work with nature's cycles, captivating readers with actionable steps to achieve energy efficiency within their urban retreat. Beyond techniques and tips, this all-encompassing guide delves into the heart of homesteading — a lifestyle that entwines productivity with beauty, inviting you to cultivate a homestead that speaks to personal style and soul nourishment. Forge new relationships through community gardening, advocate for green urban policies, and transform setbacks into rich learning experiences. Are you ready to embark on a journey of growth, resilience, and connection? "City Oasis" is not just a guide; it's your invitation to a life that's greener, healthier, and deeply rooted in the concrete foundations of your city. Embrace the homestead harmony, and let your journey begin.

Download or read book Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery written by Cheryl B. Greenacre and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery is a practical resource offering guidance on developing diagnostic and treatment plans for individual companion poultry or small flocks. Organized by body system to aid in developing a differential diagnosis list for common presenting signs, the book provides all the information clinicians need to effectively treat backyard poultry. Written by experts from both the commercial poultry field and the companion avian field, the book provides thorough coverage of both common and less common diseases of backyard chickens, ducks, and other poultry. The book begins with introductory chapters covering general information, an overview of US laws, and basic husbandry concerns, then moves into specific disease chapters organized by system. The book takes an individual medicine perspective throughout, with photographs, radiographs, and histopathological photomicrographs to illustrate principles and diseases. Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery is an invaluable guide to diseases and treatments for any practitioners treating backyard poultry.

Download or read book Human Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crisis written by Josephine Browne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environment, climate and zoonotic disease transmission. Considering the consequences of a range of multispecies engagements that challenge the perceived distinction between the social worlds of humans and other animals, it explores the themes of crisis through a range of studies, including ecological disturbance, consumer culture, intensive farming and interspecies relations in urban life. With attention to central questions about life in ‘the now normal’, including the extent to which a human–animal perspective can contribute to our understanding of pandemics, the ideological foundations of mainstream norms for human–animal relations and the scope of current and emerging social movements for reshaping human–animal relations, this volume represents a timely and important call for a sociological vision to embrace the implications of a multispecies planet and to expand the concepts of inclusion and justice. A reconsideration of the human–animal relation that seeks both to revise sociology’s past and inform its future, Human–Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crises will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in human–animal relations and the environment.

Download or read book Urban Homesteading Mastery written by Barrett Williams and published by Barrett Williams. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into a world where concrete jungles become lush, edible oases. "Urban Homesteading Mastery" is your comprehensive guide to transforming your city dwelling into a sustainable, thriving homestead, where self-sufficiency is not only possible but highly rewarding. Embark on an enlightening journey through 18 comprehensive chapters that meticulously guide you from welcoming the urban homesteading concept into your life, to mastering the advanced techniques that will make your green dreams a flourishing reality. Dive into the compact yet incredibly potent spaces of balcony, patio, and window gardens in Chapter 2. Picture your very own balcony oasis, bursting with life, providing fresh, organic produce at your fingertips. Navigate the intricate complexities of urban soil in Chapter 3, learning the secrets to creating a goldmine for growth, right in your apartment or small city lot. Water, the source of all life, takes on new meaning as you uncover the innovative techniques of collection and management in Chapter 4, ensuring every precious drop supports your homesteading endeavors without waste. The tantalizing allure of your own food crops beckons as Chapter 5 takes you through the essentials of container gardening, crop selection, and succession planting – all you need for a year-round harvest. Experience the joy of plucking ripe fruit from your very own urban orchard in Chapter 6, and discover the buzz of urban beekeeping in Chapter 7. Meanwhile, Chapter 8 illuminates the path to energy independence through renewable solutions tailored for the bustling cityscape. Savor the fruits of your labor long-term with the preservation insights in Chapter 9, giving you a taste of summer in the depths of winter. Connect with your community in Chapter 10, creating a network of like-minded urban homesteaders, and embark on exciting DIY projects as outlined in Chapter 11. Chapters 12 through 17 will invite you to explore the nuanced elements of foraging, holistic health, and innovative agricultural techniques – all while maintaining an eco-conscious and financially savvy approach to city living. Finally, ponder the promising horizon of urban homesteading with Chapter 18's visionary prospects for a greener, more sustainable world. "Urban Homesteading Mastery" is not just a guide – it's a gateway to a lifestyle transformation where self-reliance and urban living harmoniously blend. No matter the size of your dwelling, unleash the homesteader within, and make every square inch count. Embrace this journey toward a greener, healthier, and more fulfilled life in the heart of the city – no backyard required. Welcome to your homesteading future; it's ripe for the taking.

Download or read book Hobby Farm Animals written by Sue Weaver and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eggs, meat, milk, wool, fur, feathers, and some priceless bucolic bliss. No hobby farm is complete without critters...possibly a small herd peppering the field or a microflock flapping around the hen house or pond. A single information-packed volume with everything a hobby farmer needs to know about farm animals, this new comprehensive manual to selecting, caring for, and breeding livestock brings forth the expertise of five hobby farmers, each of whom has real-life on-the-farm experience with the animals she discusses. Whether you’re contemplating adding a small herd of sheep or goats to your existing hobby farm or you’ve always wondered about the benefits of raising angora rabbits or Muscovy ducks, Livestock for Your Hobby Farm provides the kind of guidance you need to begin a herd or flock and expand your pens and fencing. With exhaustive detail, the authors offer complete coverage of chickens, ducks, goats, sheep, cattle, pigs, and rabbits, including the housing, health-care, special needs, advantages and challenges of each. -Extensive sections devoted to the seven major farm animals, including profiles of the most popular breeds and varieties -Detailed how-to chapters on the care, handling, feeding, health, and safety of each animal -Special chapters devoted to the breeding and raising of young animals -Recommendations for ways of capitalizing on your livestock’s output, from selling eggs, milk, fiber, and so forth -Tips for troubleshooting potential problems and warding off diseases, parasites, and predators

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