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Grist reports: Flying the coop: The scrambled world of backyard poultry

By on July 20, 2012
chickens coming home to roost

from Grist: July 20, 2012

By Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

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chickens coming home to roost

Here are a few things you should know about keeping backyard chickens: Poultry are “poop machines” — but cleaning up after them is “less maintenance than a cat’s litter box.” You can let them range free around the yard — just watch out for predatory eagles (and your garden: “Chickens will annihilate it.”). Chickens are “not pets,” except when “they’re very much our pets.”

Linda Eckhardt comments:
Another thing to worry about if you are wanting back yard chickens. Got a dog? Even the friendliest sweetest little terrier you ever saw can turn into a chicken marauder in a minute. If you alreay have a dog or dogs, I’d say ixnay on the backyard birds.
To read the rest of the story: http://grist.org/urban-agriculture/flying-the-coop-the-scrambled-world-of-backyard-poultry/

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About Linda Eckhardt

Linda West Eckhardt, is an award winning journalist, food writer, and nutritionist. Her more than 20 cookbooks have garnered prizes including the James Beard prize for the best cookbook for a text she wrote with her daughter, Katherine West DeFoyd, entitled Entertaining 101, Doubleday. Their follow-up book, Stylish One Dish Dinners, Doubleday, was also nominated for a James Beard prize. Their next book, The High Protein Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, remains a best seller after 12 years. That book was designed to accompany low carb diet plans. Her ground-breaking book, Bread in Half The Time, Broadway Books, was named the Best Cookbook in America by the prestigious IACP, The Julia Child award. Her award winning radio work with Jennifer English, for a national show on the Food and Wine radio network, was nominated for a James Beard Prize for a show called, “I Know What You Ate Last Summer.”

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