Chicken Book

Product Information

Most of us want a dog, or a cat, or a pony when we are young - for Arthur Parkinson, it was always hens. Jacket moderately worn, with large chips at head of spine, upper rear panel, and lower front cover; taped closed tear at upper front panel; spine label. From decoding squawks to mapping out flock hierarchies and dealing with squabbles in the henhouse, How to Speak Chicken is the ultimate guide to keeping all of your ducks - make that chickens - in a row. Her bestselling book, How to Speak Chicken has been released as a wall calendar for 2023 and an all new version for 2024.

Meet the Chicken Squad: Four fuzzy little chicks who should fill their days pecking chicken feed and chasing bugs, but instead spend most of their time looking for trouble, and finding it. Fried, flambéed, roasted, barbecued, smoked, stewed, grilled, put in a sandwich or made into soup … the versatility of chicken knows no bounds and this book contains every recipe for chicken that you will ever need.

But what could the Earth’s most valuable resource be, and can they find it in time to stop the Nurgles exterminating the Earth?

In this brilliant book, Potts challenges us to see chickens as creatures who think and feel in complex ways all of their own .If you're even remotely thinking about raising chickens, or you know someone who is getting into a chicken keeping, get this book, you'll learn so much about flock keeping. An essential cookbook for easy mealtime solutions, or simply if you want to explore new flavours and techniques, One Pan Chicken is a practical and dynamic source of kitchen inspiration. Melissa is a backyard chicken keeper, seasoned beekeeper, Master Gardener, crafting maven, culinarian and nurse practitioner. Tom's scrapbooks are always fascinating, full of photographs, notes and snippets of history that inspire his books, and this one is no different! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

But the quiet fulfilment of keeping hens became his sanctuary, a tonic for mental and physical health, a connection with his family and the natural world.If you are under 16, please obtain your parent/guardian’s permission before submitting or ask your parent/guardian to submit on your behalf. Catherine Phipps, author of brilliant cookbook Chicken, tells us everything you need to know about jointing a chicken in her step by step masterclass. Photography has always been their passion, which they imaginatively transform into brilliant projects, either as a couple or in a larger team. From the local allotments and his nan's back garden, to Chatsworth and an unlikely friendship with the late Duchess of Devonshire, a famous hen-keeper, Chicken Boy tells the story of the love and satisfaction to be found in caring for living things.

Library Journal, "Smith and Daniel are obviously enthusiastic (though not sentimental) about their subject, and they've provided some good, interesting, and useful reading on the chicken. A delightfully refreshing look at the backyard flock that transcends the basics of food, water, health, and shelter. Entertaining and insightful, The Chicken Book will change the way we regard this too often underappreciated animal.Underpinned by several serious ideas but sprinkled with a generous dose of humor, [it makes for some fine reading. This book will fascinate those already familiar with and devoted to the Gallus species, and it will open up a whole new gallinaceous world for future admirers of the intelligent and passionate chicken.