Really delightful. I learned a lot about chickens -- and life in rural Massachusetts. Such a different world from my own: snowy winters. The self-sufficiency needed to build chicken coops and come up with solutions for problems of severe weather and predators in the woods. I learned that one can train a dog NOT to eat small chicken dinners on legs. I love the combination of sketches by the author (who is an artist in her "day job") and photos of the little chicks, of the one who gets a crippling disease and needs a wheelchair, and the one who gets broody and sits on eggs to hatch her own chicks. This was a super quick, fun read. In the first few pages, I worried that Scheuer would annoy me-- she has a tendency to want to point out her own zaniness, which rubs me the wrong way. But she quickly moved past that in her efforts to just tell you about the zaniness of her chickens, and then she had me. This made me excited to get my own chickens some day. And double-bonus, her illustrations really are charming. Almost as charming as her chickens!
Fun book to read if you love chickens! Charming easy read with cute photos and illustrations.
—Korrina
wonderful book about chickens, raising them and the attachments we feel with them.
—brigcs
Such a comical and educational book on chickens.
—917abc
...and now I want chickens.
—ronnienan
Easy read - one day.
—skybaxrider28
