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My Chicken Family

A Keepsake Album, Ready to Fill with Stories and Pictures of Your Flock!
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My Chicken Family by Melissa Caughey takes readers on an intriguing adventure as it chronicles the author’s experiences and insights while exploring different cultures and landscapes with her pet chickens. The story blends travel and adventure, capturing unique moments and observations from a distinctly avian perspective. Through engaging narrative, readers are invited to explore the world in a charming and unconventional way.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy heartwarming stories about farm life and the charming adventures of raising chickens. Melissa Caughey draws you into her personal experiences, providing delightful insights into rural life and the fun of managing a feathered family.

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For the many families who embrace their backyard chickens as beloved pets, My Chicken Family is a beautifully designed keepsake album for chronicling the chicken-keeping adventure, with specially designed spaces and prompts for tracking the growth from chick to flock elder, noting distinctive chick personalities, assigning names, mounting photos, and recording amusing anecdotes.

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This beautifully designed keepsake album is perfect for chronicling chicken-keeping adventures, tracking the growth from chick to flock elder with spaces and prompts for distinctive personalities, names, photos, and amusing anecdotes.

Backyard chicken keepers have a deep affection for their animals and interact with them like any pet, as Melissa Caughey, best-selling author of How to Speak Chicken, knows well from her decades of chicken friendships.

With My Chicken Family, Caughey has created a unique keepsake album that invites chicken owners to create a lasting record of their chicken adventures, with spots for adding photos of their favourite flock members and write-in prompts customised to every phase of the chicken-keeping experience.

Featuring charming chicken-themed art borders, every page invites users to chronicle an aspect of their chickens' lives, beginning with chicks and progressing to laying hen or rooster, to flock elder.

Spaces are allocated for recording amusing anecdotes along with practical information about the selected breeds, health care, flock dynamics, and individual chicken names and personalities.

The hardcover format features an egg-shaped die-cut cover that every owner can customise with a portrait of one of their own feathered friends, making it a perfect gift for any backyard chicken enthusiast.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781635865356

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 January 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: Full-color; illustrations throughout

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Oana Befort

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 232.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 460g

Pages: 80

About the Author

Melissa Caughey is the author of Chicken Wisdom Frame-Ups and the best-selling books How to Speak Chicken and A Kid s Guide to Keeping Chickens. She is a backyard chicken keeper, beekeeper, master gardener, and freelancer who writes the award-winning blog Tilly s Nest. Caughey has been featured in many national publications and can be found speaking on an array of topics at events across the country. She lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

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