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sarahndipitous_stories's review
5.0
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Listened to audiobook
This was such a fun book! I learned a lot and loved all that the author shared about her own hens. I smiled frequently and even teared up once. A worthy read, particularly if chicken and eggs are a part of your regular diet.
Listened to audiobook
This was such a fun book! I learned a lot and loved all that the author shared about her own hens. I smiled frequently and even teared up once. A worthy read, particularly if chicken and eggs are a part of your regular diet.
ieotter13's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
obviously my love for chickens drew me to this book, but it was not only a sweet story about a new flock owner, but informative about the life of chickens and their influence in backyard politics and poultry breeding, intelligence, and consumption. tbh it’s so important to have an understanding of where our food comes from, and if you eat a lot of chicken this one is ideal. it still has wholesome moments while keeping it real.
10/10 moment waslearning that chickens are beneficial in elderly homes and can be trained as therapy animals
10/10 moment was
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
allfawkesgiven's review against another edition
I liked this but ADHD and reached part that my brain was less interested in...Will likely come back to it!
erine's review
4.0
A rambling nonfiction; a memoir combined with curiosity and discovery. The author gets her own backyard chickens, and the reader follows along as she discovers more not only about her own flock but about chickens. We discover more about the history of home chickens, chicken shows, industrial chicken raising, chicken rescues, chicken training, wild chickens, and more. Maybe this seems like too much chicken, but for an animal (and food) that permeates United States' food and farming culture, I found this fascinating.
While this style of inquisitiveness-driven nonfiction might not be for everyone, I've grown to really enjoy this kind of personal discovery and am more than happy to go along with an author as they ask questions and seek answers.
Notes:
“People regularly test animals to see if they can do things that we’re pretty sure we can do better… I’m not sure whether these tests teach us much. Their main goal seems to be to rank animals in a hierarchy in which humans remain on top. Animals know exactly as much as they need to survive.” In response to clicker-training a human, which doesn’t go very well.
While this style of inquisitiveness-driven nonfiction might not be for everyone, I've grown to really enjoy this kind of personal discovery and am more than happy to go along with an author as they ask questions and seek answers.
Notes:
“People regularly test animals to see if they can do things that we’re pretty sure we can do better… I’m not sure whether these tests teach us much. Their main goal seems to be to rank animals in a hierarchy in which humans remain on top. Animals know exactly as much as they need to survive.” In response to clicker-training a human, which doesn’t go very well.