Click with Your Chick

Author: Giene Keyes
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1620083450
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
Chickens Are Smarter Than You Think Your chicken can do anything a dog can do if you train it right! Hens and roosters can be ordered go to the coop, perch on your arm, come when called, and generally respond and behave as you wish. This book presents an effective training program to get domesticated chickens to follow a variety of commands. Animal behavior specialist Giene Keyes shows how to use the positive reinforcement of clicker training to effectively manage your flock. Giene explains how a chicken thinks and socializes, expanding the range of what you may know about communicating with animals. Dog owners especially will find that working with chickens helps sharpen observation and timing skills that keep your animal engaged. Training chickens is fun too! Amaze your friends as your birds perform tricks like circling a cone, turning around, sitting down, and recognizing colors and patterns. Inside Click with Your Chick · Understand and connect with your chickens to effectively manage your flock · Clicker-train your chickens to follow fun and practical commands · Discover how a chicken thinks and socializes, and how to make that knowledge work in your favor · Learn how to use operant conditioning, luring, and positive training methods on hens and roosters · Gain insight for training any animal by improving observation skills and timing

Chicken Clicking

Author: Jeanne Willis
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448187761
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
One night Chick hops onto the farmer's house and has a browse on his computer - CLICK - soon she's shopping online for the whole farm! But when she arranges to meet up with a friend she's made online, she discovers all is not as it seems... Little Red Riding Hood for the iPad generation, this is the perfect book for teaching children how to stay safe online.

How to Speak Chicken

Author: Melissa Caughey
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1612129110
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Best-selling author Melissa Caughey knows that backyard chickens are like any favorite pet — fun to spend time with and fascinating to observe. Her hours among the flock have resulted in this quirky, irresistible guide packed with firsthand insights into how chickens communicate and interact, use their senses to understand the world around them, and establish pecking order and roles within the flock. Combining her up-close observations with scientific findings and interviews with other chicken enthusiasts, Caughey answers unexpected questions such as Do chickens have names for each other? How do their eyes work? and How do chickens learn? Foreword INDIES Silver Award Winner

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

Author: Gail Damerow
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1612120148
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you’ll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.

Chicks!

Author: Sandra Horning
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307932214
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
When a family brings home chicks from a local farm, they must do everything they can to make sure their feathered friends thrive in their new environment. With the help of their knowledgeable parents, the children provide the baby chicks with food, water, warmth, and proper shelter. Young readers will chirp along happily page after page, learning to read as they watch the fuzzy little chicks grow into downy adult chickens, who will eventually lay eggs of their own! Step 1 readers have big type and easy words, rhyme and rhythm, and picture clues, for children who know the alphabet and are ready to read.

The Teach Your Chicken to Fly Training Manual

Author: Trevor Weekes
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780900075223
Category : Chickens
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Lavishly illustrated, with no expense spared, and in exquisite taste, this book explains the theory of flight in regard to the chicken - a hitherto semi-earthbound bird.

Click

Author: Lisa Becker
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781460922637
Category : Online dating
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Fast approaching her 30th birthday and finding herself not married, not dating, and without even a prospect or a house full of cats, Renee Greene, the heroine of Click: An Online Love Story, reluctantly joins her best guy pal on a journey to find love online in Los Angeles. The story unfolds through a series of emails between Renee and her best friends (anal-compulsive Mark, the overly-judgmental Ashley and the over-sexed Shelley) as well as the gentlemen suitors she meets online. From the guy who starts every story with "My buddies and I were out drinking one night," to the egotistical "B" celebrity looking for someone to stroke his ego, Renee endures her share of hilarious and heinous cyber dates. Fraught with BCC's, FWD's and inadvertent Reply to All's, readers will root for Renee to "click" with the right man.

The Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens

Author: Kathy Shea Mormino
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760352429
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
Kathy Shea Mormino, aka The Chicken Chick, shares her wealth of experience as a chicken keeper in a fun and abundantly illustrated format in The Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens.

Chicks and Salsa

Author: Aaron Reynolds
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1619635119
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
With whimsical illustrations by Paulette Bogan, Aaron Reynolds has created a hilarious picture book about one rooster's quest for culinary delight. What happens at Nuthatcher Farm when the chickens get tired of the same old chicken feed? The rooster hatches a plan, of course! With a pinch of genius, a dash of resourcefulness, and a little pilfering from the farmer's garden, the chickens whip up a scrumptious snack of chips and salsa. When the rest of the barnyard gets a whiff of the spicy smells and want to join in, it can mean only one thing . . . FIESTA! But when the big day arrives, all their spicy southwestern supplies are gone! It seems that Mr. and Mrs. Nuthatcher have caught on to the flavor craze as well, and the only thing left for the animals to do is to try a new culinary style-ooh la la!

Hatching Chicks

Author: Michèle Dufresne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781603430173
Category : Readers (Primary)
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Book Description
"The Early Transitional Kit supports students by building a strong reading vocabulary, reading fluency, and comprehension skills. Over the course of a week of lessons, students read a new book each day and a new nonfiction book each week. Each week, they compose a story about something they have learned from reading a nonfiction book and learn about how letters and words work using magnetic letters. Students build a core of words they can read and write. Lessons include guided reading using leveled books, phonics/word work, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary development. Each lesson also includes suggestions for working with second language students."--Website