A hard-bitten former search-and-rescue dog helps solve a complicated missing chicken case.

"This nuts-and-bolts guide to selecting and raising backyard chickens offers everything a first-time keeper needs to know, from the experts at the Urban Farm Store in Portland, Oregon"--Provided by publisher.

Harriet the chicken rescues her foolish friend from the clutches of a wily fox.

On her first Halloween, Minerva Louise the hen puzzles over costumes but enjoys her first taste of candy corn.

Each day of the week, an earthworm-seeking chicken leaves the barnyard to lay her egg in a new room of the farmhouse. The reader is invited to find the egg in the photographs.

Whether you want to raise 5 chickens or 50, have a 40-foot city lot or a 40-acre farm, the expert advice in Future Farmers of America (FFA)—licensed How to Raise Chickens makes it easy for young readers and beginners to get started raising a healthy flock. Whichever comes first for you, the chicken or the egg, this book shows what to do next with the help of longtime chicken breeder Christine Heinrichs, who explains all the helpful dos and important...

Describes what happens day-by-day for the three weeks from the time a hen lays an egg until the baby chick hatches.

A mother hen tries several different places before she finds the right spot to lay and hatch her eggs.

Chickens Pip, Midge, and Dot admire Rooster Sam and his ability to fly up to the barn roof, but when they spy on him to see how he does it, they get a big surprise.