City Chicks

There are many books about chickens, but City Chicks is the ONLY book that tells you how to employ their skill sets in your yard and garden. City Chicks shows how to enable local food supply by keeping family flocks of chickens. How-to detail throughout all 460 pages on keeping, employing, growing food, and enjoying backyard poultry. Over 120 drawings, photos and tables gives you visual information and key insights.


A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food and superior soil quality has led more and more suburban and city dwellers to keep laying hens in their backyards and gardens. Across America municipalities are allowing, and even encouraging, residents to keep laying hens within city limits. 


Learn how you can: 

• Develop your own Chicken Have-More Plan.

• Have fresh, heart-healthy eggs, daily from your backyard home flock.

• Employ your chicken’s “skill sets” as garden workers, organic pesticiders, herbiciders, fertilizers, compost creators and top soil enhancers. 

• Become a chicken whisperer. 

• Save millions of tax payer dollars by using chickens to divert food and yard waste from landfills and waste management systems. 

• Be a Primary Poultry Health Care Practitioner. 

• The Poultry’s Pharmacy shows you how to make and use effective, inexpensive home treatments. 

• Draft and pass local laws allowing laying hens within your town or city. 

• Do much, much more with chickens than you ever thought possible, including outrageous chicken tricks. 

• Learn how others have built urban chicken tractors, hen huts, condos and chicken chateaus. 

• Start or join local poultry clubs. 

• Keep small flocks to help preserve endangered breeds of chickens. 

Chickens are truly "Pets with Benefits"!


By Patricia Foreman, the  Co-Host of the Chicken Whisperer Backyard Poultry and Sustainable Lifestyles Talk Show and the author of Chicken Tractor, Backyard Market Gardening, Day Range Poultry, and the. 


City Chicks is a revolutionary way of keeping and using chickens by thinking “outside the coop” and “inside gardens”. The imaginative and entertaining style of writing is combined with hands-on, real-life experience to bring you one of the most complete and authoritative books on family flock management. 


"The chicken is still having her moment as the mascot and darling of the always-cresting locavore food movement. Many people are struggling to learn how, exactly, to care for her. Enter City Chicks" —Penelope Green, New York Times, September 2009


 “City Chicks is a revelation! "It’s time that someone expertly connected gardening to raising and keeping hens!” — Michael C. Metallo, President National Gardening Association 


City Chicks might well become ‘The’ reference bible for the burgeoning local food movement.“  — Cathy Taibbi, Examiner.com


“The best solutions today are integrated solutions. City Chicks show how to successfully produce protein along with your garden vegetables while managing waste and increasing soil fertility…a 3-for-1 benefit! — Will Raap Founder, Gardener’s Supply 


“Far more than just another book on chickens, City Chicks opens the door to a whole new world of poultry possibilities. Keeping small flocks is good for gardens, municipalities, education, and the local food movement. City Chicks covers a lot of ground, and is a comprehensive information source.“ — Richard Freudenberger, BackHome Magazine Publisher & Chicken Owner 


“The focus is on how chickens fit in with so many other common needs and concerns of our century. This is a book for our times.” —JD Belanger, Editor Emeritus Backyard Poultry Magazine 


May the Flock be with YOU!!