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A Chicken in Every Yard Coordinator Eddie Rosen- Found, Did Not Make Business Thal, the Coop’S Egg Buyer 09-07-02 P 01-12 7/1/09 7:09 PM Page 1 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP Established 1973 Volume DD, Number 14 July 2, 2009 A Few Good Eggs By Gayle Forman eading an egg carton killed the majority of farmer these days can some- Laszlo Sulyok’s tiny flock. The R times require more Coop will not receive any analytical skills than parsing eggs from Federal Hill until Thomas Pynchon. Cage-free? Sulyok’s replacement chick- Free-roaming? Pasture- ens begin laying regularly. raised? Organic? What do By the time you read this, these terms mean? Which Natural Acres, the Coop’s eggs come from large farms? largest supplier of pasture- What is life like for chickens raised eggs (see box for defin- in these flocks? And what ition), may be part of our egg eggs does the Coop carry? history. Ivan Martin, the 72- With the Coop selling year-old farmer who owns 3,125 dozen eggs per week Natural Acres, also grows PHOTO BY HAZEL HANKIN PHOTO Booker Dechert (L) with Maia, Djuna and Carmen (L–R). from a number of suppliers, vegetables and livestock and it’s hard to keep track. And has a bed-and-breakfast. the egg selection changes fre- Recently, he sold his roving quently for a variety of rea- chicken operation because sons, explains Receiving raising pastured chickens, he A Chicken in Every Yard Coordinator Eddie Rosen- found, did not make business thal, the Coop’s egg buyer. sense. “We’d let our chickens By Larissa Phillips Take Alderfer Farm Eggs: For out around noontime after a while, distribution issues the eggs were laid. They love here is nothing new and livestock coordinator of a minimum order of 25 to temporarily halted our supply to go in the grass and eat about keeping poultry Just Food (and a Coop mem- ensure the chicks’ warmth of Alderfer’s white eggs. Then bugs; that’s what’s makes the within city limits. ber), “Over the last five years during shipping.) their brown eggs were the good egg,” Martin says. But T What pre-gentrifica- in NYC, the number of chicken Within an hour of stum- only ones available. Now we now Martin wants to grow tion East Villager never heard keepers has catapulted astro- bling upon this site, using can only get white eggs from more nutrient-rich vegeta- a rooster crow? Squatters nomically. I have been to their wickedly enticing Breed them. In the case of Federal bles, and government regula- were said to keep chickens in around 30 community gardens Selector Tool (“Which Chicken Hill Connemaras, one of our tions require that his cattle abandoned houses, and fam- with chickens, and there are Is Right for You?”), and discov- smaller providers, it was a be a certain distance from his ilies throughout the city are 163 chicken enthusiasts (many ering that one of the breeds different sort of supply prob- known to have chickens in with chickens!) on our four- recommended for us—the lem: A fox in the henhouse CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 their apartments or back- month-old meet-up group.” Buff Brahma, described as yards, especially in immi- docile and “huggable”— grant-dense neighborhoods Overnight Chicks would be hatching within two where residents may have This spring, I joined these weeks, I had placed the order. Next General Meeting July 28 grown up with chickens in legions of new urban chicken Our five chicks arrived via The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held on the their home countries. keepers. Despite having con- USPS mail truck. Chicks need last Tuesday of each month.* The next General Meeting will be What is new about keeping sidered it for a few years, it intense heat when they are on Tuesday, July 28, at 7:00 p.m. at the Congregation Beth Elo- chickens in the city is who’s happened quite suddenly, little, so we kept them him Temple House (Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Place. doing it—middle-class Michael when I discovered a website indoors in a large aquarium, For more information about the GM and about Coop gover- Pollan-ites—and how many that ships as few as three under a 250-watt red heat nance, please see the center of this issue. of them there are. According chicks to the New York City * Exceptions for November and December will be posted. to Owen Taylor, the training area. (Many hatcheries require CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 July 4th Shopping Hours: 6:00 a.m.–7:30 p.m. IN THIS ISSUE Coop Letters to the Editor . 4 Thu, Jul 30 • Blood Drive Drive, 3:00–8:00 p.m. Lions and Beavers and Bears: Oh My!. 5 Event Fri, Jul 31 • Blood Drive Drive, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Coop Hours, Puzzle . 6 Sat, Aug 1 • Blood Drive Drive, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Coop Calendar, Workslot Needs Highlights Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. Governance Information, Mission Statement. 7 Classified Ads . 10 Community Calendar . 10 09-07-02 P 01-12 7/1/09 7:09 PM Page 2 2 July2, 2009 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY A MERTI A Chicken in Every Yard M M CO SU E CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE are fertilized. Domestic hens have been selec- tively bred, mostly in the last century, to lay lamp. The chicks were astonishingly cute. My them more often. Most domestic hens will lay family—husband Chris, son Booker, 10, about three to five eggs per week, depending daughter Djuna, 5, and myself—were one and on their breed, without the help of a rooster. all mesmerized by our new residents. We The eggs are not fertilized unless there is a pulled up chairs to the tank and gazed at the rooster around. chicks, and took pictures of them like proud How do the roosters fertilize the eggs? new parents. And we weren’t the only ones. In (Don’t laugh; this is a common question.) the weeks that followed, we hosted a steady The roosters mate with the hens, and then the stream of playdates as neighbors called and hens lay fertilized eggs, which may ultimately asked if they could come by. produce chicks. Our chicks are just eight weeks old now and Does the chicken coop smell? ...and the living is easy. living full-time in the coop that Chris built in Ours does not, but our small flock is still our backyard. It will be months before we gath- young, and it is not August. People in similar But don’t forget your coop shift! er our first egg, and we have yet to face winter situations tell me that if their coops have any and all its attendant decisions: Heat lamp or smell (and many don’t), it is not a bad or over- no? Who will handle feeding on February powering smell, and is only noticeable at close If you plan on being away during one of mornings? But we have been through the range. p your workslots, please make arrangements hardest part and are now What do you do with the poop? m to have your shift covered. eager ambassadors to the This is one of the best es surprisingly large world of parts about keeping chick- the chicken-curious. This ens: We compost it. I have ab One way to do it is to use is where things have been composting in my w the Shift Swap at www.foodcoop.com! changed in recent years. backyard for ten years. Since su we started adding chicken ch Crazy for Chickens poop, it is like we discovered th Your co-workers will love you for it! When I was growing up the “on” switch: The nitrogen B with backyard chickens in in the poop heats the com- a suburban Connecticut, I post and makes it turn th don’t remember anyone faster—a lot faster. w ever saying they wanted What about raccoons (or dogs, th chickens of their own. Not cats, hawks)? so this current generation We made our coop preda- A of urban locavores. About tor-proof by using hardware every third chicken conversation I have, some- cloth (sort of like chicken wire, but with a w one admits to wanting chickens. As Owen Tay- tighter weave) to line the bottom of the coop, lor says, “People want to eat food that they several inches under the soil. Some longtime liv PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP have grown themselves.” chicken keepers I’ve talked to in Brooklyn ch In response to these conversations, and haven’t had problems with raccoons, but I A Product Return Policy because I’m officially in the enthusiast camp read a lot of sad stories on the chicken blogs, fa of urban chicken keepers, I’m presenting some and wanted to be safe. w The Coop does not “exchange” items. You must return item and repurchase of the questions I hear most often, and the What kind of chickens do you have? en what you need. Returns of eligible items will be handled at the Second answers I’ve been giving, hoping to convey We ordered Buff Brahmas, which are known e Floor Service Desk within 30 days of purchase only when accompanied by the PAID IN FULL receipt. how thoroughly delightful, family-oriented for being docile, cold-hardy and quiet. But one la and ecologically sound our experience so far little misfit chick turned out to be an Easter- w Please use the following guide to determine if an item is eligible for return: has been: Egger, a hybrid breed that produces lightly d Produce May not be returned with the exception of Will they lay eggs? tinted blue or green eggs.
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