Washoe County Library System

"An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock"-- "An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock. Since first domesticating the chicken thousands of years ago, humans have become exceptionally adept at raising them for food. Yet most people rarely interact with chickens...

Discusses the life of hens that produce eggs to be sold. Portrays hens that run freely about the farm and those that never leave their cages.

Presents a guide to caring for chickens on a small scale, including purchasing a starter flock, housing, feeding, care, and raising the animal for specific purposes such as food.

A giant chicken hatches from an enormous egg, but the other chickens cannot accept that he is one of them.

Creative plans and easy-to-follow construction techniques for making seven stylish chicken coops.

Chicken's cow visitors try to jump, dance, and wiggle on his couch, which is much too tiny for such exuberant activities.

In search of the perfect place to lay her egg, Tillie the chicken leaves the barnyard and explores the farmhouse.

A retelling of the cummulative folktale in which a silly chicken and her barnyard friends run around shouting that the sky is falling.