Chortle Chook Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I'm reading "Tales from the Coop - the joy of ex-battery hens" Edited by Sphie McCoy and just love it!! It is truly heart warming and makes me feel I ought to dash out and get some ex-bats (well ex-cage these days). Do you have any good chick lit books to recommend that make fun reading (rather than the usual instruction books)? After a long dull day at work when my brain is too adled for serious books a bit of chick lit is just the medicine I need Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libby22 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I love that book! I bought it just after I got my ex-bats and it really hit home. I can't recommend it highly enough though whether you have ex-bats or not, the poem about the girls moaning to their keeper because they all want the same nest box is hysterical. Really lovely book - can't think of any others because that is my fav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 me too:) loved the book, got it on my kindle and took it on holiday 3 weeks before getting my girls and couldn't get past the poem 'letters are amazing' coz I kept crying!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackian Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 A very small book to flick through and have a chuckle ... One hundred ways for a chicken to train a human. By Diane Parker. A quick snippet ... "Make sure you get plenty of muck on your eggs .Your humans love to boast and show people that they are free range. If you can get a few feathers to stick on as well ,it all adds to the effect" "Firstly they may try to give you a really stupid name.You decide whether you like it .If you do ,answer to it occasionally ,if you don't ,ignore them at all times -unless they have food ." Jackie x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 There is a really funny book written by a chap during his first year or so of chicken keeping, its so true and witty and he writes beautifully - I cant for the life of me remember the title though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 I've read 'One hundred ways for a chicken to train a human' jackian and you are right it is really funny. Another very funny book is Martin Gurdon's "Doing Bird - A chicken keeper's year". He really is such a whitty writer. I laughed a lot when I was reading it and have now got his book "Travels with my Chicken" but haven't read that one yet. In "Doing Bird" he has doves and ducks as well as chooks so a bit like me I also enjoyed "Chicken Coops for the Soul - a henkeeper's story" by Julia Hollander which though not as funny, is heart warming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 A very small book to flick through and have a chuckle ... One hundred ways for a chicken to train a human. By Diane Parker. This is one of my favourites too. It sums up my Suzie by saying "The hurried clucking of a hen when laying an egg is distinctive. What you do every day is amazing; no human could even come close to what you achieve. Be proud and tell them before, during and after the activity - over and over again" Not only does Suzie do this for her own egg but for all the other girl's eggs too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkysmum Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 "Tales from the Coop - the joy of ex-battery hens" Edited by Sphie McCoy and just love it!" Thanks Shabby Chic, sounds perfect, have just ordered it from Amazon The new Omlet must read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Well got one idea there re the battery hen book for something to get/read as sis gave me 'doing bird' for Christmas and loved it.. Any more good ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 "Tales from the Coop - the joy of ex-battery hens" Edited by Sphie McCoy and just love it!" Thanks Shabby Chic, sounds perfect, have just ordered it from Amazon The new Omlet must read I just looked on Amazon too and have asked the birthday bunny to bring one in February Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Not a book about hens, but hens feature in it: Hens Dancing by Rafaella Barker, and the sequel Summertime. They're a lighthearted rom-com type of book, in which hens play a sort of walk-on part! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
