chickens
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Peebottle Farms: Chicken expertology
How are chickens like us? Are they easy to care for? Can you feed them onions? Here's what I learned in my first three months.
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Urban chicken consultant will help you realize your homesteading dreams
We know you think backyard chickens are hot, because we've been rifling through your trash and we found those back issues of Grit. Now there's a shortcut to realizing your dream of owning little tiny feathered dinosaurs that lay unfertilized breakfast bombs for you: Hire a chicken consultant.
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Peebottle Farms: Chicken run
In which our heroine travels to a real farm and resists buying a dozen laying hens -- but settles for a half-dozen.
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Raising chickens is totally rock and roll
Jenifer Jourdanne has expensive tastes, expensive shoes, and "designer chickens." In an essay in xoJane, she talks about how her long-standing backyard coop didn't dent her rocker cred:
I will have you know I was a maverick. I was the girl in the early 90s at Viper Room where people would say things like “Slash, come over here, no really, this chick has pet chickens!" I mean I am sure they probably thought I used them in an adult act but sorry to bore you, they just walk around my herb gardens looking for snails.
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Peebottle Farms: Cooped up in the city
As soon as it got warm enough, Tei and I started bickering about the chicken coop. The plan was that "we" would build it, but we both knew that meant Tei would grumble about it first, and then reluctantly figure out how and do the heavy lifting.
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Peebottle Farms: Back to the land in Brooklyn
Welcome to my Bedford-Stuyvesant urban farm.
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Why Broke-Ass is a patriot
Broke-Ass goes off on bicycle lanes, Northern Europe, and the smugness of the eco-movement in general, before telling a few stories about what makes this country great.
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Critical List: Texas drought is a natural disaster; climate change causes extreme weather
After months of drought, the federal government declared 213 counties in Texas natural disasters.
Even if wildfires stay clear of Los Alamos, burning trees and heated soil contaminated with residual radiation from old nuclear tests could be a problem.
Here's the scientific explanation for why extreme weather can be connected to climate change. -
FDA admits supermarket chickens test positive for arsenic
Why is Big Ag playing chicken with our health?Back in March, Tom Philpott wrote about the “insane” practice of feeding factory-farmed chickens arsenic: The idea is that it makes them grow faster — fast growth being the supreme goal of factory animal farming — and helps control a common intestinal disease called coccidiosis. The industry […]