Farm Animals - Chickens

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Explore the care, housing, and maintenance involved in raising chickens. Colorful photos and illustrations guide readers through the different breeds of chickens and life cycles.

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Explore the care, housing, and maintenance involved in raising chickens. Colorful photos and illustrations guide readers through the different breeds of chickens and life cycles. Excerpted from Chickens by Sharon Dalgleish All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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Gr 1-2-Arranged in short chapters, these titles attempt to describe these two animals. A large color photo on each page is accompanied by three to four sentences and a brief caption. Vocabulary is limited, resulting in incorrect or misleading information. Some cattle are described as having stripes. The text states that some bulls have horns, but that others are polled, and offers no explanation of what that means. Bottle-feeding of calves is rarely the result of the mother dying. Calves are more often bottle-fed if the cow has mastitis or if the calf is removed so that the cow can be used for milk production. It is not likely that hay and grains are mixed for feeding. Combinations of this kind are usually ground, mixed together, and formed into pellets. Cattle do not sit down; they lie down. A calf does not have to be six months old before it is called a heifer or a bull; it is one or the other at birth. Chickens contains some good information, but is not without its problems. Chicks are not born; they are hatched. Chickens perched in a tree for the night, as shown in one photo, is possible, but not very realistic. Even free-range chickens are usually housed in a building of some type at night for protection from predators. If titles of this genre are desperately needed, Chickens would be a serviceable choice.-Eldon Younce, Harper Elementary School, KS (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.