Washoe County Library System

"From addled to wind egg, crossed beak to zygote, if it concerns chickens, it's covered in this comprehensive encyclopedia. Now you can find the answers to all your chicken questions quickly, easily--and accompanied by illustrations.

"Your hands-on guide to modern chicken-raising methods Thinking about raising chickens? You've come to the right place! This new edition of Raising Chickens For Dummies provides the most up-to-date, thorough information on the many aspects of keeping chickens in your backyard. Inside, you'll find hands-on, easy-to-follow instructions on choosing and purchasing chickens, constructing housing for your birds, feeding your chickens for optimal health,...

From fun in the fields to feeding time, find out all the facts about the daily life of farmyard animals.

When a crazy chicken wreaks havoc in the kitchen there is just one thing to do--prepare a nest so that she will settle down. A restless little chicken is flap, flap, flapping her way through a kitchen. But why is she there? What could she be looking for? Follow the excitement and find out all the little reasons that have driven this chicken to peck and pick and poke!

When his father brings him some new word puzzles, Word Bird makes up more words with his friend Hen. Each word that they make up leads them into a new activity.

Describes what happens day-by-day for the three weeks from the time a hen lays an egg until the baby chick hatches. Read and find out all about eggs -- and how baby chicks grow inside of them. Learn how chicks develop,how they get the food they need to grow, and how a mother hen helps keep them safe in this simple introduction to the life cycle of a baby chick.

Caitlin and her parents rescue a hen from a lake, name her, and take her home with them, but even after they return her to the farm where she lives, her presence is still felt in Caitlin's family.

Still yearning to be seen as heroes, Wolf, Shark, Snake, and Piranha set out to rescue ten thousand chickens from a high-tech cage farm--but one unexpected problem is Mr. Snake himself, also known as "The Chicken Swallower."