A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens: Best Breeds, Creating a Home, Care and Handling, Outdoor Fun, Crafts and Treats

Melissa Caughey

Storey Publishing, LLC, Mar 10, 2015 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 144 pages

Covering everything from feeding, housing, and collecting eggs to quirky behaviors and humane treatment, Caughey’s engaging advice helps children understand the best ways to care for their chickens. Spark enthusiasm with creative activities like chicken forts and a veggie piñata for the flock, and feed more than the imagination with egg-centric dishes like Mexican egg pizza. 

About the author

Melissa Caughey is the author of Chicken Wisdom Frame-Ups and the best-selling books How to Speak Chicken and A Kid’s Guide to Keeping Chickens. She is a backyard chicken keeper, beekeeper, master gardener, and freelancer who writes the award-winning blog Tilly’s Nest. Caughey has been featured in many national publications and can be found speaking on an array of topics at events across the country. She lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens: Best Breeds, Creating a Home, Care and Handling, Outdoor Fun, Crafts and Treats
• Author: Melissa Caughey
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 2015
• ISBN: 1612126480, 9781612126487
• Length: 144 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Farm Animals; Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Pets; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry