How to speak chicken

Title:

Author:

Caughey, Melissa, author.

ISBN:

9781612129112

Personal Author:

Caughey, Melissa, author.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Contents:

Chicken translator at your service : understanding what your chickens are saying -- How to behave in the henhouse -- What makes a chicken tick? -- Hey, I'm no birdbrain! : understanding chicken smarts -- How do you feel? the emotional life of chickens.

BISAC Subject:

Technology / Farm

Subject Term:

Chickens -- Behavior.

Chickens -- Psychology.

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Summary

Best-selling author Melissa Caughey knows that backyard chickens are like any favorite pet -- fun to spend time with and fascinating to observe. Her hours among the flock have resulted in this quirky, irresistible guide packed with firsthand insights into how chickens communicate and interact, use their senses to understand the world around them, and establish pecking order and roles within the flock. Combining her up-close observations with scientific findings and interviews with other chicken enthusiasts, Caughey answers unexpected questions such as Do chickens have names for each other? How do their eyes work? and How do chickens learn?

Foreword INDIES Silver Award Winner

Author Notes

Melissa Caughey is the award-winning author of A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens and the blog Tilly's Nest . She is a backyard chicken keeper, beekeeper, and gardener, She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

As most urban flock keepers know, chickens have a dialect all their own. Lovingly observed, closely decoded, and expertly assembled over the course of countless coos, clucks, and buk-gaws, this title by gardener, blogger, and bee- and chicken keeper Caughey (A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens) details chicken communication and behavior while supplying abundant support material spanning the whimsical, scientific, and instructional. This book is a welcome complement to time-honored references such as Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens or The Backyard Chicken Bible but focuses on a narrower facet of husbandry while still covering general ground. Entertaining anecdotes about the author's birds and the broods of other farmers are balanced by a plethora of fun facts: Did you know that a hen's heart beats 400 times a minute or that her tongue is barbed? Ever heard the lowdown on tidbitting? Did you know that you can predict the color of a hen's eggs by examining her earlobes? There's so much to learn. VERDICT A new spin on chickenese ready to drive any urban farming linguist mad as a wet hen with joy.-Dan -McClure, Seattle, WA © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.