Literature Archives - Chicken Wing Toe

September 3, 2021September 9, 2021

Drinking With Chickens

It’s drinks, it’s chickens: It’s the cocktail book you didn’t know you needed!

To add some extra happy to your happy hour , invite a chicken and pour yourself a drink. Author Kate Richards serves up cocktails made for Instagram with the spoils of her Southern California garden, chicken friends by her side.

Cocktails are arranged seasonally, and are 100% accessible for those of us without perpetually sunny backyard gardens at our disposal. Drinking with Chickens will quickly become a boozy favorite, perfect for gifting or for hoarding all for yourself. You don’t need chickens to enjoy these drinks or the colorful photos, but be careful, because you may even find yourself aspiring to be, as Kate is, a home chixologistoverrun by gorgeous, loud, early-rising egg-laying ladies, and in need of a very strong drink.

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021

How To Speak Chicken

I just received this book for my birthday and I highly recommend it for every chick-devotee!

Description

As much as we’d like to cluck and crow along with our feathered friends, understanding what our chickens are trying to tell us is usually much more nuanced than that. In this how-to guide, best-selling author, Melissa Caughey, breaks it all down, explaining equine behavior and answering the questions that keep flock-keepers up at night. You’ll learn firsthand how chickens use their senses, establish pecking order and interact with one another. This INDIES Silver Award Winner uses scientific facts and interviews to explain the quirks that make chickens so unique—like, do chickens have names for each other? How do they learn? For a chicken-farmer, “speaking chicken” can help you bond, communicate and create a trusting relationship with your flock.About the Author

Bestselling author of How to Speak Chicken and A Kid’s Guide to Keeping Chickens, Melissa Caughey is a hands-on gardener, beekeeper and chicken keeper. She spends her time writing for her award-winning blog, Tilly’s Nest, and writing for HGTV and DIY Network, plus magazines like Grit, Chickens, Community Chickens and Country Living.When she’s not speaking at events across the country, Melissa is living her best life at her home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

January 1, 2019November 29, 2020

Chicken Limerick

A chicken whose name was Chantecler
Clucked in iambic pentameter
It sat on a shelf, reading Song of Myself
And laid eggs with a perfect diameter.

— Richard Maxson

Enjoy more incredible art by Hanyska.

November 30, 2018November 29, 2020

Literary Chickens by Beth Moon

We just discovered Literary Chickens by Beth Moon and is gorgeous! Fierce, funny, and flamboyant, fifty-two heritage-breed chickens assess the camera with a keen gaze. By focusing on the faces of her avian subjects, Moon reveals them to us not just as beautiful and exotic creatures, but as individuals in their own right. Get this book at your local book store or on Amazon today!

December 31, 2015November 29, 2020

Childrens Literature

There are some wonderful books about our feathered friends and all of their grand adventures classified under Childrens Literature. We have seen a lot of great recommendations, but we think this article is the best.

January 7, 2013November 29, 2020

A Chicken in Every Yard

A Chicken in Every Yard by Robert and Hannah Litt dispense advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers. The Litts take you under their experienced wings and share their secrets about breeds, feed, coops, care and so much more. This is a must-have reference guide for novices and seasoned urban farmers alike.

July 27, 2012November 29, 2020

Chicken Facts by The Smithsonian

We could not be more overjoyed with the fact that The Smithsonian just published an article entitled, “14 Fun Facts About Chickens.” Be still are beating hearts and may your hearts sing as much as ours did when reading this insightful post!