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Chicken Poop for the Soul: Backyard Adventures
In this book, the author describes experiences she and her husband have had with backyard chickens, first with neighbor chickens and then with their own. She explains what they did, how they did it, and why they chose to let their chickens be free-range. Based on several years of observation, she talks about the pecking order dynamics and chicken behaviors towards one another, other animals and people. She also takes a trip down memory lane and tells about the natural progression from her longtime interest in whole foods to backyard chickens and vegetable gardening in their one-acre piece of land in College Station, Texas.
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74 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 11, 2013
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July 5, 2017
Loved this book
I had no idea that chickens had such cute and interesting personalities. This was a fun, heartwarming quick read. Also loved the anecdotes about healthy vegetarian eating and cooking. I think what got me interested in reading this book was when I asked my niece how she gets her chickens to go in their coop every night and she said the rooster rounds up his hens every evening and won't rest until they are all safe and sound. Amazing!
I had no idea that chickens had such cute and interesting personalities. This was a fun, heartwarming quick read. Also loved the anecdotes about healthy vegetarian eating and cooking. I think what got me interested in reading this book was when I asked my niece how she gets her chickens to go in their coop every night and she said the rooster rounds up his hens every evening and won't rest until they are all safe and sound. Amazing!
March 27, 2020
Good Chicken Poop
An easy read, relaxing but also very informative. I loved the stories of the chickens, roosters, the grandkids and the family in general. It was interesting to find out that the chickens had their own personalities, but that there is a difference between those bred for their meat and the free range ones. Believe it or not, I found it hard to put down.
An easy read, relaxing but also very informative. I loved the stories of the chickens, roosters, the grandkids and the family in general. It was interesting to find out that the chickens had their own personalities, but that there is a difference between those bred for their meat and the free range ones. Believe it or not, I found it hard to put down.
May 29, 2018
Cute series of vignettes about living with chickens and the vegetarian/flexitarian lifestyle. Fun read.
September 2, 2015
What a sweet story about a woman, her family/friends, and some chickens! I feel jealous that she chose this title. I wish I would have thought of that! How adorable! I loved all the stories about the chickens that roamed over from the neighbors' yard and became a part of their daily lives.
But then somewhere around 79% the story became about the author and her diet. I think that this should have been titled 'about the author', but I got over the change in flow and topic. In fact, I got a bit of 'it's a small world' feeling as she tells of her life in 1968. She was in the same city as I was at the time. She and her husband must be very close to my age, a bit older but at our ages the few years don't matter anymore. Not only were they in the same city but the author seemed to have the same diet of books that created her diet. Her research for pregnancy and raising children were the same as mine. Even her call of being flexitarian which I have been and was more back then than now. Now I am more vegetarian-leaning, always, toward vegan. Just can't give up the cheese for long.
But back to the bucolic chickens and their lives. When my children were young I had an acre with roaming chickens and had a couple goats, too. Ms. Teri Metcalf brought that back to me and makes me impatient to get that life back. Only 19 days until that happens!
But then somewhere around 79% the story became about the author and her diet. I think that this should have been titled 'about the author', but I got over the change in flow and topic. In fact, I got a bit of 'it's a small world' feeling as she tells of her life in 1968. She was in the same city as I was at the time. She and her husband must be very close to my age, a bit older but at our ages the few years don't matter anymore. Not only were they in the same city but the author seemed to have the same diet of books that created her diet. Her research for pregnancy and raising children were the same as mine. Even her call of being flexitarian which I have been and was more back then than now. Now I am more vegetarian-leaning, always, toward vegan. Just can't give up the cheese for long.
But back to the bucolic chickens and their lives. When my children were young I had an acre with roaming chickens and had a couple goats, too. Ms. Teri Metcalf brought that back to me and makes me impatient to get that life back. Only 19 days until that happens!
September 26, 2014
Uneven reading experience. Some of the stories were charming, but others would be misleading to anyone thinking of getting their own backyard chickens. Also, I don't understand why she had to conclude the book with a couple of random chapters on her diet...that was a very odd way to end it!
September 5, 2015
Loved this book
This was a fun and informative read for anyone thinking of having their own chickens, either in a city or country setting.
This was a fun and informative read for anyone thinking of having their own chickens, either in a city or country setting.
January 6, 2016
Barnyard fun.
Enjoyed the down home stories. Kind of relived my childhood. I still head to the chicken barn every year at the county fair.
Enjoyed the down home stories. Kind of relived my childhood. I still head to the chicken barn every year at the county fair.
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