Introduction: (Heritage) Chickens and Turkeys and Ducks: Oh, My!
1. When Good People Get Poultry
2. Another Beautiful Day in Paradise
4. A Slippery Slope: Which Comes First, the Chickens or the Homework?
5. A Rooster Called Charlemagne
7. Turkeys Are People Too — but They’re Not Chickens
8. Everybody Look Busy — Here Come the Ducks!
9. Violet, Bumptious and Hampty
10. Heritage Turkeys and Chickens Are More Sustainable, and They Have More Fun
12. Chicken Tractors and Slug Slurpers
13. Hunt and Peck: Putting Natural Foraging Behavior to Work
14. Turkeys and Chickens as Guard Animals?
15. Weasels Are Smaller Than You Think
16. Bobcats with Chicken Breath, and Other Bedtime Stories
17. Keeping the Ducks Safe at Night
19. Equal Rights for Unhatched Chicks
20. Keeping Poultry with Other Farmyard (and Backyard) Animals
21. Small Farm New Math: If (Chicken Tractor), Then (Pig Plow)
22. Farm-fresh Eggs: What’s the Big Deal?
23. Duck Eggs Are Delicious, and Great for Baking
24. Slaughtering and Processing Poultry
26. How to Cook Your Heritage Turkey
27. Tastes Like Chicken: Making a Case for Heritage Chickens as Meat Birds
30. The Bigger Picture: Poultry in the Community
31. Chicken Coop for the Winter-hardy Soul
32. Back to Standard Time, Which the Birds Never Left
34. Pure Poultry Premise #1: Purebred Birds Are More Sustainable
35. Pure Poultry Premise #2: Shorten the Food Chain
36. Pure Poultry Premise #3: Challenge the “Get Big or Get Out” Adage
37. Pure Poultry Premise #4: Have Fun!