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Language
English
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"An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock"--
When Danovich picked up her first flock of chicks, she didn't expect the birds to change her life. She began to wonder: what is a good life for a chicken, anyway? She went in search of the people breeding, training, healing, and advocating for chickens. Danovich reports on the hidden cleverness and irresistible...
2) Blue chicken
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An enterprising chicken attempts to help an artist paint the barnyard and accidentally turns the whole picture blue.
8) Daniel's pet
Author
Publisher
Green Light Readers/Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy takes good care of his pet chicken, and when she is grown up she gives him a surprise.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A series of unusual stories about chickens. Ranges from a woman who revived a chicken with CPR, a man who raises chickens for his own consumption, a woman who keeps a pet chicken, a group of suburbanites who banded together to stop a neighborhood rooster raiser, a headless rooster, and a man who's life changing experience comes when he sees one of his chickens protect her chicks from a hawk.
14) How to raise chickens for meat: the backyard guide to caring for, feeding, and butchering your birds
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Enjoy the true farm-to-table experience--and the rewards of self-sufficiency--with this practical guide to raising your own chickens. How to Raise Chickens for Meat is packed with practical information on every step of the process of raising, butchering, and cooking your own chickens. It begins with a detailed overview of the things you need to consider before you get started, including how to choose your chicken breed, where to place your coop, and...
Author
Publisher
5m Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Providing a practical and easy to follow guide, this is an ideal book for people beginning with keeping chickens, covering the basics of poultry husbandry. The authors are experienced smallholders and share their advice with the aim of keeping healthy, happy chickens. The physical and behavioural attributes of domestic chickens are discussed in detail, advice on laying hens, breeding and raising chicks, housing, feeding, nutrition and health maintenance...
16) One more egg
Author
Publisher
North-South
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bunny needs one more egg for a special project so he asks chicken to help him find one.
17) Pip's trip
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pip tries to convince her fellow hens, Midge and Dot, to join her for a ride in the farmer's truck, but she is the only one brave enough to climb inside.
18) Chicks and salsa
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Soon after the chickens tire of their feed and decide to make tortilla chips and salsa, all the other animals on Nuthatcher Farm start to crave southwestern cuisine. Includes three recipes on endpaper.
19) Eggs and chicks
Author
Series
Publisher
Usborne
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life cycle of chickens and provides some information about other birds and their eggs.
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