A kid's guide to keeping chickens / Melissa Caughey.
Material type: TextPublisher: North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 137 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781612126487 (hardcover with pullout poster : alk. paper)
- 1612126480 (hardcover with pullout poster : alk. paper)
- 9781612124186 (pbk. with pullout poster : alk. paper)
- 1612124186 (pbk. with pullout poster : alk. paper)
- SF487.5 .C38 2015
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Why chickens? -- Choosing the best chickens -- Finding your flock -- From chick to chicken: the first six weeks -- Making a home for your hens -- Feeding your flock -- The excitement of eggs -- What to do with a sick chick -- Handling, training, and playing with chickens -- Chickens in the garden -- Chicken crafts -- Cooking with eggs.
This surprisingly detailed guide provides expert advice on everything from selecting breeds of chickens to building a coop. The author describes and illustrates the daily chores required to raise chickens. There is even a section about what various chicken vocalizations mean! (Miller Library Staff)
Chickens make wonderful pets, and Melissa Caughey (author of the award-winning blog Tilly's Nest) provides all the information kids need to raise healthy chickens and have tons of fun doing it! Caughey shares her advice in an engaging way so that kids understand what it means to keep chickens and what kind of housing, food, equipment, and care the chickens will need to thrive. She also suggests lots of creative activities sure to spark enthusiasm and imagination, such as speaking chicken, creating a veggie pinata for the flock, and making a chicken fort in the backyard. She even offers ten egg-centric recipes that kids will love to make and eat, including egg drop soup and Mexican egg pizza.
Recommended for primary school (age 6-12) and up and for parents.