Bucky Buckaw gives advice on raising backyard chickens, as just one example of how a locally based economy can work. Through this segment, he informs listeners about the downside of factory farming and what kinds of toxic chemicals you can expect to find in the resultant livestock. He promotes organic gardening and composting, and supporting local farmers. He shares fascinating chicken lore from the millennia that will fascinate even those with no interest in birds.

Bucky will gladly answer questions from listeners on his show. Send your emails to bucky|at|radioboise.org. Bucky would especially love it if you recorded yourself asking the question and sending him the mp3 file to play on the show. Go on, don't be shy; Bucky won't peck you!

Listen to Bucky Buckaw's Backyard Chicken Broadcast on:

Relocalizing Vermont with Carl Etnier, WGDR, Plainfield, VT 91.1 FM
Thursday mornings 8:30am - 10am

Making Waves airs on WSCA, 106.1 FM Portsmouth, NH
Saturdays noon to 2 pm.
Live streaming is available from WSCA. Listen to any recent Making Waves show NOW or subscribe to the podcast!

Radio Free Moscow KRFP Moscow, ID 92.5 FM
during Morning Mix

Radio Boise

Listen to Bucky on Deconstructing Dinner! Deconstructing Dinner is a weekly radio show and podcast that delves into issues of food sovereignty, food security, self sufficiency, and alternatives to pesticide- and chemical-laden food. We highly recommend it.

Here's a photo of Bucky's chicken coop. Click here for a short quicktime video of it.

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Bucky's Links:

City Chickens: this site will help you find out if backyard chickens are legal in your town.

Solar Chicken Coop design

coop designs and other how-to pages from Backyard Chickens

The Feather Site - for lists and photos of many chicken varieties

Economic analysis of a small egg farm

Nutritional analysis of free-range eggs from Mother Earth News

pretty good info on chicken feed, despite truck sales, plus great info on chickens eating grass

the story of how Madison, WI fought for their right to have backyard chickens--and won

Hybrid Vigor Institute

Center for Food Safety on cloned animals

Clone Wars piece on Center for Environmental Health site

Cloning news on Organic Consumers Association site

1/15/08 FDA News Release on the saety of food from clones and other documents

Bantam Cochin Neem's movie redits include Thai Chicken (scroll down the page for download) and Triple U by FTB Productions.

Sex reversal in chickens by J. Jacob and F.B. Mather and Case report of sex reversal in a chicken by C.H. Bigland and F.E. Graesser.

just one source for the Scarecrow motion-activated sprinkler

just one source for the Scarecrow motion-activated sprinkler

League of American Bicyclists Bike Month events

Carl Etnier's blog for his radio show Relocalizing Vermont and peak oil topics.

James Howard Kunstler's web page and podcast.

For chicks from local chickeners, check the message board at BackyardChickens.com

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