Clucky Chickens

This playful title features a popular farm pet that kids know and love, chickens! Beautiful photography and animal facts precede a rhyming story with custom illustrations. Early readers will enjoy the bouncy story that flows throughout the book. This title closes with a list of interesting chicken facts and a quick quiz. Sandcastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Winner at the 2011 International Latino Book Awards Clucky the Hen has a big heart, but she’s clumsy and forgetful too. A tale ideal for learning to accept the faults of those around us. Guided Reading Level: M, Lexile Level: 900L

Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.

More than ever, Americans care about the quality and safety of the food they eat. They're bringing back an American tradition: raising their own backyard chickens for eggs and companionship. And they care about the quality of life of their chickens. Fresh Eggs Daily is an authoritative, accessible guide to coops, nesting boxes, runs, breeding, feed, and natural health care with time-tested remedies. The author promotes the benefits of keeping chickens happy and well-occupied, and in optimal health, free of chemicals and antibiotics. She emphasizes the therapeutic value of herbs and natural supplements to maintaining a healthy environment for your chickens. Includes many "recipes" and 8 easy DIY projects for the coop and run. Full color photos throughout. The USDA's new study of urban chicken raising sees a 400% increase in backyard chickens over the next 5 years, driven by younger adults.

Many people dream of getting away from the ratrace and live in the beautiful Australian Bush. The birds' melodies make music to do hard, physical work by and the peace unforgettable. Such was the life of Coral and her family living off the land and working without the modern appliances which electricity bring. Can you imagine the country children going to a big city and pulling a piece of string hanging from the ceiling. Imagine their eyes as a light came on. Forget like saucers, more like dinner plates. Just the thought of no power is inconceivable to many, but they knew nothing else. Their many exploits, like trapping rabbits, getting the wood in for hungry wood stoves and the rare trip to the nearest town in a car which required that they had umbrellas up inside to keep off the rain. The excitement of the rabbit drive with all neighbours joining in making as much noise as possible. The shearing of the sheep and droving them many miles with their own idiosyncrasies is a real laugh as are the tricks of the witty, dry humoured, much loved father. A happy loving family.

The Hens in Poultsville: Have Fun Keeping Poultry The Hens in Poultsville will each introduce you to the fun topic of Keeping Backyard Poultry. Hens are a great idea to add as pets to the backyard. As well as being intelligent, friendly, and quirky, they are productive egg producers. Keepers get a lot of enjoyment out of watching the girls prance about the lawn, searching for bugs and worms. Hens have their own unique personalities and eccentricities to keep you entertained for hours. Children can learn from hens about the natural world and where eggs come from. You’ll never get over the smile on a girl's face when she finds eggs in the nest box; or the cry of delight of a boy when he feeds hens with meal scraps. I am going to keep you abreast of the subject of having the ladies provide you with an eggs-traordinary supply of eggs. Are you egg-cited? Full of pictures, hen jokes, and play on words, this book is an easy read for the young adult who is interested in keeping backyard poultry. So, without feather ado, purchase this book and chick it out right away. Contents Part One: The Hens in Poultsville Introduction by Rye About Hen Breeds by Bantam About Coop Construction by Barb About Feed and Water by Paspalum About Egg Production by Clover About Common Pests by Thistle About Common Ailments by Dropsy About Handling Hens by Dandelion Part Two: Those Born in Poultsville About Roosters by Perky About Hatching Chickens by Freckle About Raising Chicks by Lanky Doodle The Hens in Poultsville will each introduce you to the fun topic of Keeping Back Yard Poultry. I don’t mean to crow about it, but this is an egg-cellent book. Chick it out! Get this book and start today!

First Published in 1994. The Survey of English Dialects (SED) is the only detailed nation-wide dialect survey which has ever been conducted in England. The SED is a unique repository of data on the traditional dialects of England in the mid-twentieth century. This remarkable record is a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of British English dialectology, sociolinguistics, and English historical linguistics. The SED fieldwork was undertaken in predominantly rural communities in England in the middle of the twentieth century, at a time when social, domestic and working life was undergoing very significant changes. The SED is thus a record of speech which reflects a society different in many ways from today, and as such affords the possibility of comparison which is instructive to those engaged in all types of study of linguistics today.

First Published in 1994. The Survey of English Dialects (SED) is the only detailed nation-wide dialect survey which has ever been conducted in England. The SED is a unique repository of data on the traditional dialects of England in the mid-twentieth century. This remarkable record is a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of British English dialectology, sociolinguistics, and English historical linguistics. The SED fieldwork was undertaken in predominantly rural communities in England in the middle of the twentieth century, at a time when social, domestic and working life was undergoing very significant changes. The SED is thus a record of speech which reflects a society different in many ways from today, and as such affords the possibility of comparison which is instructive to those engaged in all types of study of linguistics today.