A kid's guide to keeping chickens

✍ Scribed by Caughey, Melissa

• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.;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.

✦ Table of Contents

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.

✦ Subjects

Chickens;Eggs;Eggs--Production;Juvenile works;Chickens -- Juvenile literature;Eggs -- Production -- Juvenile literature;Eggs -- Production