Under the Henfluence is a must-read for anyone to understand both backyard chickens, and a bit of the chicken and egg industries in general. It's part-memoir, part educational anecdotes about the world of chickens. When I adopted three backyard chickens from a friend who was moving, I was immediately smitten with them. Another friend recommended reading this book as a way to better understand chickens without it being a technical dry how to book, and it was exactly the type of book I wanted to read at this time. 

The author really dives into the world after adopting her own day-old chicks, by touring different aspects of the industry such as a hatchery, chicken therapy-animals, wild chickens, even beauty pageant for chickens show. It was illuminating looking at chickens in all sorts of different angles and what we can learn from them. Some of course was heartbreaking, but was written with observation versus straight up vehement shaming. (I did the shaming loudly in my brain, specifically how chickens are treated in the meat industry.) So although some is hard to read, it's also important and illuminating and interesting. I read the ebook version checked out from my library over the course of about a month.