Barbara Kilarski, a woman with a passion for poultry, provides detailed information every aspiring chickenkeeper needs to know in this handbook.

Like home-grown vegetables, home-raised chickens put us in touch with our rural past, give us a sense of self-sufficiency, and provide food - eggs! - for the table that is a lot tastier than anything we could find at the supermarket. And chickens are fun! Like dogs, they bond with their owners, and like kids, they do the darnedest things.

Kilarski regales the reader with tales spotlighting the joys of raising chickens, while at the same time explaining the nitty-gritty details of how to be a successful chicken keeper.

This book is as practical and encouraging as it is witty and entertaining. Join the urban and suburban chicken-farming boomlet and start enjoying the freshest breakfast eggs available.

Barbara Kilarski is the author of Keep Chickens! She is a writer who lives with her longtime companion, an old bulldog, two cats, assorted fish, and of course, chickens.