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Until a few years ago, the closest most people came to chickens was selecting which shrink-wrapped package of parts to toss into the grocery cart. But today, with the growing locavore (i.e. local food) move-ment, backyard chickens are all the buzz.

Like a home garden that supplies veg-gies for the dinner table, chickens offer a way for suburbanites to replicate the farm experience on a scale that works in neighborhoods where houses sit separated by feet rather than acres. Cows, pigs, goats need space; chickens need only a coop for shelter and laying along with some outdoor space to stretch their drumsticks. The eggs that come from these chickens are so far superior in taste to standard supermarket eggs that it’s hard to believe that they come from the same animal species.

Two overarching considerations rule the decision whether you can manage a flock of backyard chickens: gaining sufficient knowledge about what’s involved to make sure you want to invest the effort in caring for these animals; and, most importantly, en-suring that your jurisdiction allows them. Chicken resources and literature abound (see opposite page). Start with a book geared toward beginners since the more advanced books may overwhelm a novice. Theinternet has numerous sites focused on chicken-raising for the homeowner; backyardchickens.com is one of the best and also hosts a forum for chicken-o-philes to chat and trade information.

PrePPing for Your ChiCkensIf after a bit of reading you decide you’re up to the challenge, start by gathering the equipment you’ll need to house and feed your chickens.

Food: Chickens eat a wide range of foods. Grain-based feed from a supply store that has a reasonable amount of protein provides a good diet foundation. But the birds also like scraps from your kitchen ... both vegetable and meat products. To help the eggshells thicken, keep crushed oyster shells or limestone grit around for the chickens to peck at; these provide calcium, one of the primary builders of the shells.

Water: Chickens require a reliable source of clean water. Supply stores sell a variety of waterers. Since chickens aren’t particu-larly averse to pooping in their own water-supply, choose one that minimizes a bird’s ability to perch atop the container.

Shelter: Like human housing, homes for chickens can range from the ram-shackle, converted doghouse to the poultry McMansion. For those who want immediate satisfaction, complete coops can be purchased at supply stores or on-line, but they tend to be pricey. It’s worth tak-ing the time to search Craigslist or the local paper to get a used coop for a better price.

Building a coop is also quite possible, and it enables an owner to customize the structure to accommodate available space. A coop should provide protection from predators (meaning that it must be fully enclosed), offer a nest box for egg laying, contain a floor that allows for easy clean-ing, and supply a perch for nighttime roosting. The coop should have about 1.5 square feet for each bird and the structure should include an attached, roofed, fence-enclosed outdoor space. This area should offer at least 8 square feet (a little less than 1 yard by 1 yard) per chicken.

Backyard ChickensA how-to-get-started primer for raising your own poultry

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Photographs by Melissa Stanton

By Nina Fisher

A coop’s interior should have good insula-tion to protect the birds from cold weather. Along with the insulation, chickens re-quire adequate ventilation. The balance of good insulation versus sufficient ven-tilation can prove elusive. Open eaves on the coop’s side, along with a covered gap at the roof’s ridge, will allow airflow to move through the coop but keep precipita-tion out. Backyardchickens.com offers a variety of coop design ideas and plans so browse through the possibilities before choosing.

Coops can be stationary or mobile; mobile coops allow you to cart them into new po-sitions around the yard so the chickens can forage for insects over a wide area. Chick-ens pecking at the soil can help keep your lawn healthy, and their droppings spread out more broadly, fertilizing the yard. Sta-tionary coops may require more cleaning effort since the birds will all poop in a single area.

PiCkin’ Your ChiCkensNext, you need to decide what kind of chickens you’ll be raising, and how best to begin.

Chickens Little or Large: Here’s the di-lemma: baby chicks are sooooo cute and your kids are going to lobby heavily to get the little fluff balls instead of full-grown hens. But baby chicks require extra time and equipment. Also, it’s harder to tell if the little cuties you’ve selected will grow to become hens or roosters. (Many areas don’t allow roosters, and since roosters fight for dominance, it’s hard to keep more than one in a flock.)

If you can deal with the added burden and risk, you’ll be rewarded by being able to watch the chicks change before your eyes, you’ll be able to bond with them from an early age, and you’ll likely have tamer adult chickens.

The easier option is to purchase young or full-grown chickens from a farm, breeder, chicken exchange, or a rescue organization.

(Yes, there are chicken rescues.) With older birds, there’s no special diet, no need to keep them extra warm, no pint-sized feeder and waterer. A downside is that the chickens will not have imprinted with you and your family as early in their life.

Chickens Plain or Fancy: Your next deci-sion: what type of chicken? There’s more to this than you might think. Presuming you are interested in chickens that are good layers, choosing a breed that produces a lot of eggs (but is not neces-sarily great for eating) makes a lot of sense. The Rhode Island Red, Barred Rock and Buff Orpingtons are all good choices, though scads of other varieties are out there. Breed temperament, ap-pearance, climate-hardiness and habits, along with the space you have available should all be factors influencing your decision.

• • • This article contains only the bare bones (so to speak) of acquiring backyard chick-ens. With the current interest in the birds, websiteand print information on setting up for and raising chickens has surged, so do your homework. Above all, don’t get a few cute chicks on a whim; make sure you can handle caring for the birds, and then get out the iron skillet ‘cause those eggs are going to taste great.

Chicken Information

The following resources are handy ways to learn more:

• backyardchickens.com• backyardpoultrymag.com• backyardchickensite.com

Mature hens typically lay one egg a day. Contrary to common belief (among city folk) hens don’t need roosters in order to lay eggs.

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What Moms-To-Be Should Know About Chiropractic Care

PregnAnCyregular chiropractic care in pregnancy helps promote balance, alignment and flexibility. Many women report less morning sickness and feel healthy throughout their pregnancy. Chiropractic care can relieve and prevent the pain and discomfort frequently experienced in pregnancy, creating an environment for an easier, safer delivery. It is a safe and effective way to help the spine and pelvis cope with the rapid changes by restoring a state of balance. In fact, most women have found that chiropractic care helped them avoid the use of pain medications during their pregnancy, and studies have shown that chiropractic adjustments help to reduce time in labor.

Labor and bIrthMothers who get adjusted seem to require less high tech intervention, resulting in shorter, less traumatic deliveries. With proper nerve supply, effective contractions help move the baby more easily through the birth path. also, when a baby is comfortable, he or she can assume the optimal birth position resulting in a faster, simpler labor and birth.

Post deLIveryChiropractic care is beneficial to both mother and baby after delivery. even natural births can stress a baby’s spine. a chiropractic check up for your newborn can make for an easier start to breastfeeding. breastfeeding problems arise if a baby is unable to comfortably turn its head. you can relax knowing that a light touch is used to make adjustments safe, comfortable and effective.

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Chicken Checklist• Do your homework. Read about raising poultry before impulsively purchasing those oh-so-cute chicks.

• Check your county and/or city regulations regarding backyard chickens.

• Decide whether to go the chick route or to start with full-grown chickens.

• Buy or construct a coop that provides ample indoor and outdoor space for the chickens.

• Purchase or fabricate a chicken feeder, waterer and perching area.

• Buy supplies at local farm stores such as Bowen’s Farm Supply in Annapolis or the Gambrills General Store. Supply stores sometimes have chicks in stock, or you can shop online (see left).

• extension.umb.edu (look for the downloadable publication titled “Raising Your Home Chicken Flock.”)• Take a class on backyard chickens at Anne Arundel Community College

Ways to find chicks — as well as full-grown birds and “teenage” pullets and cockerels (i.e. hens and roosters less than a year old) — include:

• Reputable online websites, such as mypetchicken.com and chickensforbackyards.com• Craigslist classifieds• Chicken rescue groups, swaps, and poultry shows

Tip: It’s best to get chickens from a hatchery certified by the USDA’s National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP).

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FARMERS’ MARKETS Year-round farmers’ markets in Mary-land include Central Farm Markets in Bethesda and Rockville, the Takoma Park Farmers’ Market, the Kensington Farmers’ Market, the 32nd Street Market in Baltimore and — closest to the Nest-ing area — the Kent Island Farmers’ Market in Stevensville. In addition to produce, the Kent Island market sells beef, poultry, cheese, milk, yogurt, eggs, herbs and more. Located at Christ Church on Route 8 South, the market is open every Thursday after-noon. The crops change through the seasons, but with greenhouses, fresh produce is available all winter. When the weather is too cold to sell outside, the farmers move the market indoors. “I always encourage parents to bring their children, including toddlers and babies, to the farmers’ market,” says Diane Bedlin founder of the Kent Island Farmers’ Market. “Kids enjoy coming because they don’t have to be as tame as they do inside a grocery store.” Bedlin strives to make the farmers’ mar-ket more than just a source of good food; she’s also seeking to build a sense of community. “We have about 15 farmers, and they like it when people ask how the food was grown, where, and what kind of fertilizer was used,” she says. “There’s a whole generation that has missed the connection between their food and where it comes from. My farmers love to have their customers’ children visit the farms to see how food is grown.”

A hint about farmers’ markets: When you shop, ask if the market is a “producer’s market,” which means the

farmers sell only what they’ve produced. Some markets allow vendors to resell food grown locally by others, which is fine, but the seller may not know the growers’ specific farming practices.

SHOPPING ONLINEShopping for local and organic food doesn’t get much easier than placing an order with Maryland Table, an Annapolis-based online food store created in 2010 by Todd Smith and Kyle Stewart as a way to connect Maryland residents with sustainably and humanely produced food. Maryland Table sells fresh food from organic and/or sustain-able Maryland farms.

“Our drivers cover Maryland from tip to tip to provide nutrient-dense, local food year-round. We purchase from 20 to 30 farms, even in winter and early spring,” says Stewart. Maryland Table offers produce, dairy and eggs, meat, pasta, bakery items, and more. Ordering is done online at marylandtable.com. You can choose to pick-up your order or, depending on your location, have it delivered to your door. With five children between their two families, Stewart and Smith understand the needs of parents. “As fathers first, we want the best quality foods for own children. That’s one of the reasons we started Maryland Table,” says Stewart.

“When considering what to feed our own kids, the primary concern is that the food is organic. Ideally, it would be both organic and local,” he says. “We do a lot of the legwork for parents who want to be educated about what their children eat but are struggling to balance work and spending quality time as a family.”

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A hint about organic foods: “The ‘organic’ label is a certified legal standard approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and must meet certain criteria,” explains Kyle Stewart. “Howev-er, ‘locally grown’ is not a legal standard, and the term doesn’t have set criteria. As part of our business, we know which local farmers use healthy practices even if they’re not certified as organic. We’re experts at being able to parse that out. We’re very big on transparency because we want to make it as easy as possible for parents to acquire good food.”

RESTAURANT DININGEating out is a treat for the whole family, and at b.b. Bistro in West Annapolis, chef owner Carla Lucente serves delicious breakfast and lunch dishes pre-pared with locally grown ingre-dients. “We are persistent about finding locally grown food,” says Lucente. “To me, ‘local’ means it comes from within a 100-mile radius.”

The restaurant purchases pro-duce such as spinach, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, garlic and onions from a nearby grower. Fruits and vegetables come from a farm stand in Pasadena, and the coffee and dairy are local, too. Of course, not every-thing can be purchased directly from a grower.

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Community Fall FestivalGrace Presbyterian Church, 4012 Birdsville Road, Davidsonville This free event on October 1 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) features live music, a moonbounce, pony rides, food and drinks, farm animals, face painting, door prizes and other attrac-tions. (graceep.org)

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Have you ever asked your-self, “Do I Have ADHD?”

It’s a thought that crosses the minds of many moth-ers. Why?

Because they think about the number of things they want to do but don’t, or the projects they start but don’t finish, or the chores they actually do but don’t do well, or the tasks they do, only to have to do them again.

People generally under-stand why an employed mom may fall behind on household projects and chores. She’s busy at work and isn’t home (or she’s busy working from home). And when she’s not work-ing, she’s dealing with her kids. And when she’s not dealing with kids, she’s trying to put the house back together or get herself geared up for her next day at work. Employed moms often can’t get anything done, with good reason.

Stay-at-Home moms don’t benefit from the “being busy at work” explana-tion. “I don’t have a job. I’m home all day,” a stay-at-home mom tells herself. Consequently, she believes she should be able to complete a simple task like changing out the kids’ summer clothing to fall,

or culling through the bags of hand-me-downs her neighbor dropped off. But she can’t get to those things. Or she actually does start sorting the clothes, but by day’s end her bedroom is filled with piles ofclothing, which the

kids then find and jump in, scattering them throughout the room. Since she now has to start sorting all over again, she either shoves the clothes into a trash bag or moves them into one large pile for dealing with on another day.

When her husband sees the mess and asks, “Why did you start this if you weren’t going to finish it?” or “What’s so hard about sort-ing clothes?” she either get really angry or she can’t answer, because she can’t think of a good reason why she didn’t finish the job. She hadn’t left the house all day, except to drive the three-year-old to and from preschool, and later to meet her kindergartner at the bus stop. She hasn’t even made dinner yet, because she’s been so busy sorting the clothes.

What happened? What happened is that instead of accomplishing a big task,

she’s spent the day per-forming dozens of tiny, un-inspiring, seemingly mean-ingless tasks and chores and errands, each of which took a little bit of time but, when added together, con-sumed the entire day.

Regardless of a mother’s employment status, each runny nose wiped, each search for a shoe, each request from a child for a drink interrupts her con-centration and takes time from doing something else (including just relaxing with her kids).For instance, imagine you’re at home, sitting at your computer and trying to pay bills on-line while your toddler is entertaining herself nearby with toys. About five min-utes into your banking your child approaches with a runny nose:

• You see your child has a runny nose.

• Before she wipes her nose on your pants you get up from your chair to grab a tissue.

• You return to your child and wipe her nose.

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• Now you see that your child’s shirt is wet, as are your fingers.

• You remove the child’s shirt.

• You go to the kitchen sink to wash your hands.

• The sink has dishes in it, so you rinse the dishes to put them in the dishwasher.

• But the dishwasher is full of clean dishes.

• You empty the dishwasher and then fill it with dishes from the sink.

• You tell your child to play with her toys while you go upstairs to get her another shirt.

• When you get upstairs you toss the shirt into the laundry room.

• Passing the bathroom on your way to your daughter’s closet you realize you actually need to use the bathroom. You do, and you use up the toilet paper.

• You go to the hall closet and get more toilet paper.

• You return to the bath-room to replace the roll.

• The bathroom garbage pail is full, so you grab the trash bag and replace it with another.

• You go into your child’s room to find a new shirt.

• While there, you see that a sippy cup is in her bed, and that she’s left her wet overnight diaper on the floor.

• You put the diaper in the trash bag you’re carrying. (Wow, that was efficient!)

• You make your daugh-ter’s bed and gather the sippy cup.

• On the way back down-stairs you catch another glimpse of the laundry room and realize you have enough dirty clothing to do a load of wash.

• You open the washing machine to discover there’s already a wet load inside.

• You start to put those wet clothes into the dryer but the dryer is full.

• You pull the clothes out of the dryer and put them in a basket.

• You put the wet clothes in the dryer.

• You put the dirty clothes, including the yucky shirt, in the washing machine and start a wash.

• Since you don’t have time to sort the clothes, you leave the basket of clean laundry on your bed.

• You return downstairs and search for your shirt-less child.

• You pass the sink, so you rinse the sippy cup and put it into the dishwasher.

• You try to shove the bathroom trash into the kitchen trash container but it’s full.

• You take the trash out to the garbage cans in the garage.

• You come back into the house and put another bag in the trash container.

• You find your child.

• Her nose is running again, she has gotten into the bills and papers you were working with, she needs a diaper change and it’s lunchtime.

How much time did it take to wipe that child’s nose?

Fifteen minutes? Twenty minutes? A half hour?

Imagine variations on this scenario playing out doz-ens of times a day. (By the way, your online banking site has logged you off by now.) Imagine that same scene, perhaps with ad-ditional offspring in the house.

You don’t have ADHD.

You have children!


Melissa Stanton is the author of The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide: Field-tested strategies for staying smart, sane, and connected while caring for your kids (Seal Press/Perseus Books, stayathomesurvivalguide.com). An employed mom turned stay-at-home mom turned employed mom, she always feels she can't get anything done.

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