  Chiral cosmic strings are naturally produced at the end of D-term inflation
and they may have interesting cosmological consequences. As was first proved by
Carter and Peter, the equations of motion for chiral cosmic strings in
Minkowski space are integrable (just as for Nambu-Goto strings). Their
solutions are labeled by a function $k(\sigma - t)$ where $t$ is time and
$\sigma$ is the invariant length along the string, and the constraints on $k$,
which determines the charge on the string, are that $0 \leq k^2 \leq 1$. We
review the origin of this parameter and also discuss some general properties of
such strings which can be deduced from the equations of motion. The metric
around infinite chiral strings is then constructed in the weak field limit, and
studied as a function of $k$. We also consider the angular momentum of circular
chiral loops, and extend previous work to consider the evolution and
self-intersection properties of a more general family of chiral cosmic string
loops for which $k^2(\sigma-t)$ is not constant.
