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Title: Chicken Coops for the soul.......love it!
Post by: fiestyredhead331 on December 17, 2013, 10:46:34 am
for anyone thinking about getting a few chickens or as a reminder to those of us how we started our journey into poultry keeping or even just as a nice easy, funny book to read, I would recommend it! By Julie Hollander, its a nice little book, full of useful info but told as a story, I'm half way through it but it made me chuckle and she obviously did her research but it reads as a funny story instead of the usual endless paragraphs about regulations and DEFRA etc  :chook:
Title: Re: Chicken Coops for the soul.......love it!
Post by: doganjo on December 17, 2013, 11:13:57 am
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chicken-Coops-Soul-henkeepers-story/dp/0852652356/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387278801&sr=1-1&keywords=chicken+coops+for+the+soul (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chicken-Coops-Soul-henkeepers-story/dp/0852652356/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387278801&sr=1-1&keywords=chicken+coops+for+the+soul)
Title: Re: Chicken Coops for the soul.......love it!
Post by: fiestyredhead331 on December 17, 2013, 11:15:34 am
thanks for adding that Doganjo :-)
Title: Re: Chicken Coops for the soul.......love it!
Post by: ladyK on December 17, 2013, 06:00:24 pm
I loved reading this book too!
(when I was at the stage of just about daring to dream that one day I'd have my own chickens...)

Months later I looked up the book reviews on the Amazon page - hilarious:
there are several outraged comments about how the writer dare to kill one of her chickens and - the horror! - feed the chicken soup to her children.  :roflanim:
Title: Re: Chicken Coops for the soul.......love it!
Post by: fiestyredhead331 on December 17, 2013, 09:04:34 pm
I felt compelled to add my own review to the amazon reviews as some of the views posted on there were just ridiculous!
Title: Re: Chicken Coops for the soul.......love it!
Post by: madchickenlady on January 01, 2014, 04:33:01 pm
Jus :excited:t bought it!!
Title: Re: Chicken Coops for the soul.......love it!
Post by: suziequeue on January 01, 2014, 05:58:30 pm
Sometimes the reviews are deliberately OTT. There are some hilarious ones (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Veet-Men-Hair-Removal-Creme/dp/B000KKNQBK/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top) if you look hard enough