"Follow a classroom of kindergartners as they participate in a popular activity: hatching chicks. Readers learn about the life cycle of a chicken, incubating eggs, watching them hatch, and raising the chicks until they are old enough to return to the chicken coop." -- Publisher's website.

Welcome to the wonderful world of chickens! This barnyard bird is full of surprises. Did you know some chickens are so small they can perch in the palm of your hand, and others have feathers that look like a beard? Chickens can learn to count up to four and have excellent hearing--many even like to listen to music! Chickenology takes young readers on a fascinating and informative tour of chickens. Discover the incredible variety of chickens with different...

A young boy describes how he cares for the chickens living on his farm.

Rhymed text and illustrations show the humorous results when a little girl buys one baby chick, her sister buys two, ending with great-grandpa buying ten.

Introduces the most common bird in the world by presenting facts about its physical characteristics, what it eats, where it lives, and the eggs which it lays.

Find out how a chick grows up to become an adult and how chickens are kept on a farm.

Large illustrations and simple text describe what an egg is made of and how it hatches into a chicken.

"How does a chicken grow? Follow the journey through a chicken's life cycle, from the time the egg is laid, through hatching as a chick to becoming a fully grown hen"--

Describes the order of birds that includes chickens, peacocks, junglefowl, pheasants, grouse, and partridges.