The Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens

The Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens
Author: Kathy Shea Mormino
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2017-10
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0760352429

Kathy Shea Mormino, aka The Chicken Chick, shares her wealth of experience as a chicken keeper in a fun and abundantly illustrated format in The Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens.

Chicks and Chickens (CD)

Chicks and Chickens (CD)
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN: 9781430117223

Read by Bonnie Kelley-Young From cuddly chick to mature hens and crowing roosters, the behavior, breeds and life cycles of these farmyard favorites is laid forth in this colorfully read, orderly presentation.

Chick Days

Chick Days
Author: Jenna Woginrich
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2011-01-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1603425845

Jenna Woginrich chronicles the life journey of three chickens (Amelia, Honey, and Tilda) from fluffy, newly hatched bundles to grown hens laying eggs of their own. As you watch these chickens grow, you’ll learn everything you need to know about chicken behavior, feeding, housing, and health care. This playfully informative guide will inspire you to confidently raise your own feathered flock.

Sonya's Chickens

Sonya's Chickens
Author: Phoebe Wahl
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1770497897

Sonya raises her three chickens from the time they are tiny chicks. She feeds them, shelters them and loves them. Everywhere Sonya goes, her chicks are peeping at her heels. Under her care, the chicks grow into hens and even give Sonya a wonderful gift: an egg! One night, Sonya hears noises coming from the chicken coop and discovers that one of her hens has disappeared. Where did the hen go? What happened to her? When Sonya discovers the answers, she learns some important truths about the interconnectedness of nature and the true joys and sorrows of caring for another creature.

Let's Hatch Chicks!

Let's Hatch Chicks!
Author: Lisa Steele
Publisher: Young Voyageur
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0760357854

Introduce children to the life cycle of chickens from egg, to hatching, and beyond with Let's Hatch Chicks!. Author Lisa Steele, of Fresh Eggs Daily, shows the entire process in kid friendly terms. In this book you’ll meet Violet, a plucky and fun-loving chicken. Violet has an exciting secret to share with you: she’s ready to be a mom! Join Violet as she keeps her eggs warm and protects them from danger. See what happens each week as the chick grows inside the egg. And when the new chicks arrive, that's when the fun begins again! These baby chickens need a lot of help to get along in the big world. They will need food, a new home, and sometimes a little help from mama hen. Author Lisa Steele presents the exciting world of chickens in an easy-to-understand, kid friendly way with action-packed illustrations, a useful glossary, and fun chicken facts! Steele runs the very popular chicken-keeping blog, Fresh Eggs Daily, and also hosts a TV show on a PBS affiliate in Maine.

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks
Author: Gail Damerow
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1612120148

Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you’ll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.

Chickens and Chicks

Chickens and Chicks
Author: Emilia Hendrix
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1482437732

Chickens can’t fly, but they sure know how to raise a family! This exciting book shows how chickens take care of their chicks. From laying eggs to watching them hatch and caring for the newborn chicks, this book takes emerging readers through the life cycle of these interesting animals. Colorful photographs paired with accessible text show how these feathered friends live on farms and how hens take care of their chicks, making sure they grow up to raise a family of their own!

City Chicks

City Chicks
Author: Patricia Foreman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780962464850

City Chicks is a remarkable trend-setting book for poultry lovers and urban agriculturists. It combines hands-on, real-life experience to bring you one of the most complete authorative books on micro-flock management.

Chicks!

Chicks!
Author: Sandra Horning
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0307932214

When a family brings home chicks from a local farm, they must do everything they can to make sure their feathered friends thrive in their new environment. With the help of their knowledgeable parents, the children provide the baby chicks with food, water, warmth, and proper shelter. Young readers will chirp along happily page after page, learning to read as they watch the fuzzy little chicks grow into downy adult chickens, who will eventually lay eggs of their own! Step 1 readers have big type and easy words, rhyme and rhythm, and picture clues, for children who know the alphabet and are ready to read.