Chicken Book

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Final chapters are "On Keeping Chickens,"--a step-by-step guide-- and "The Culinary Chicken (and Egg),: which includes twenty-one recipes. Find out why you must never touch a noisy chicken in this playful addition to our bestselling Never Touch series. It features linocuts, collagraphs, woodcuts, monoprints, screenprints, etchings and wood engravings and there are around 160 images in total. It is no longer a secret that chickens are the new stars of the farmyard, meadows, gardens, and urban backyards. Michael Gaspars, Whole Earth, "At times amusing, essentially very serious, this engaging offbeat look at the chicken-as an estimable creature in itself and as a symbol of man's desensitization through technology-[is] a pro-chicken, pro-man Western omelette worth reading and pondering.

With chapters on the origin of the chicken, chickens in fable and other writings, and the chicken in various historical settings, from ancient to modern times. Follow Jean-Vincent’s attempts to draw a chicken as he has to contend with runaway beaks, sleeping eggs and peckish chickens.The brilliant Made By Dyslexia are offering free training for schools on how to create an inclusive classroom that supports Dyslexic Thinkers.

The book includes lively discussions of the chicken's role in literature and history, the cruel attractions of cockfighting, the medicinal uses of eggs and chicken parts, the details of the egg-laying process, the basics of the backyard coop, recipes, and much more. From feathers and flock formation to imprinting and incubating, The Chicken provides a comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to understanding how chickens live, think, and act both alongside people and independently. This book truly has everything you might want to know about chickens, written in an entertaining style. Few animals have been more wholly absorbed into human awareness (and use) than chickens, and yet Potts helps us see them with new understanding. By submitting a review you grant us the right to display and use it in any way; please read our General Legal Notices for full details.

Annie Potts does a good job of condensing the vast scientific literature on [the chickens] biology and behaviour into a stream of fascinating facts . We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.