help me find chickens in literature please

[GodofPecking]

I find them mentioned in some versions of the bible, does anyone know famous stories about or featuring chooks ??

Proverbs 30
Four Things That Move With Dignity

29 Three things are stately in their stride, even four are stately in their walk:

30 a lion, which is mightiest among beasts and doesn't retreat before anything,

31 a strutting rooster, a goat, and a king at the head of his army.

 

[lovingmyhens]

Chicken Run. It was a children’s movie several years ago

 

[GodofPecking]

ooh coool,

Chicken Run https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120630/

I found so far this but not much big name authors http://www.chickensinliterature.com/

 

[SueT]

Hetty and Harriet by Graham Oakley

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Hetty and Harriet by Graham Oakley
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Omg i have to read this

 

[micstrachan]

I have a really fantastic book to add to the list... waiting to hear back from my friend who loaned it to me.

 

[micstrachan]

Ooh, I remember! It’s really, really fabulous! You must read it! @GodofPecking

The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, the Gladyses, & Babe: A Memoir
by Alice Walker

 

[Beer can]

Not sure about bible quotes about chickens.
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about chickens in her books,
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...AhAB&usg=AOvVaw2wapJxiOdK5jVvp7RsnCff&ampcf=1
I read all her other books when I was a kid, haven't read that autobiography yet.
I got into growing mammoth red mangel beets this last couple yrs for my chickens, read this ;
"Laura Ingalls Wilder, of Little House on the Prairie fame, was famous for getting excellent egg production out of her hens in the winter on her farm. She wrote of mangels in her memoirs saying, “Some stock beets should be raised to feed the layers in winter. The hens are fond of them and they act as a relish and appetizer as well as save other feed.” "

Also this;
"Henry Field’s Seed Sense for February 1926. In it the author writes, “If you don’t grow mangel beets for anything else, grow them for your chickens. They furnish a very important food element for your laying hens. Your hens will loaf on the job during the winter if they do not have green food of some kind like sprouted oats, cabbage, or beets. Mangels are easy to grow and make enormous yields. "

 

[SueT]

Not sure about bible quotes about chickens.
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about chickens in her books,
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...AhAB&usg=AOvVaw2wapJxiOdK5jVvp7RsnCff&ampcf=1
I read all her other books when I was a kid, haven't read that autobiography yet.
I got into growing mammoth red mangel beets this last couple yrs for my chickens, read this ;
"Laura Ingalls Wilder, of Little House on the Prairie fame, was famous for getting excellent egg production out of her hens in the winter on her farm. She wrote of mangels in her memoirs saying, “Some stock beets should be raised to feed the layers in winter. The hens are fond of them and they act as a relish and appetizer as well as save other feed.” "

Also this;
"Henry Field’s Seed Sense for February 1926. In it the author writes, “If you don’t grow mangel beets for anything else, grow them for your chickens. They furnish a very important food element for your laying hens. Your hens will loaf on the job during the winter if they do not have green food of some kind like sprouted oats, cabbage, or beets. Mangels are easy to grow and make enormous yields. "

Wow!! Must find seeds for my winter garden. I wonder if you feed greens, roots, or both. Wikipedia says it's a beet grown for livestock fodder. But people can eat them too....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangelwurzel

 

[Beer can]

Wow!! Must find seeds for my winter garden. I wonder if you feed greens, roots, or both. Wikipedia says it's a beet grown for livestock fodder. But people can eat them too....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangelwurzel

I fed the tops in the fall as I harvested them a long with the smaller beets, saved the bigger one's for winter feeding.
I was tempted to try them myself, maybe I will this yr. They look like Chioggia beets inside red and white rings.