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Backyard Chickens: Getting Started

 

It seems that Grit editor Hank Will and I are "on the same sheet of music" this week. He put up a great post about saving money in 2009 by raising your own chickens on the same day I was planning on putting this one up, so I thought I'd give it a day or so before adding my two cents.

 

One of the first things that many small-scale growers and aspiring "urban pioneers" decide to do after they've established their garden plans is to look into obtaining some chickens. I know a lot of the Grit readers probably already have them or have had them in their past so this may be old news to them.

 

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Raising Chickens and Poultry for Home Pest Control

 

Poultry are an all-natural, animated insecticide. Tired of slugs and bugs destroying your garden? Tired of picking ticks off your children and pets? Did you realize that birds on the farm aren't just for eating? They can also play an important part in keeping all kinds of pests at bay.

 

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Adventures with Mail-Order Chickens

 

Certain beverages and ordering poultry do not mix. One summer in the heyday of the back-to-the-land movement, during a period when my life was in limbo, friends who had bought a little homestead farm let me pitch a tent in the woods above their ramshackle house.

 

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