help me find chickens in literature please

[JoeO]

I had a little rooster song.
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If we're including songs, mention of Pete Seeger reminds me of the great Malvina Reynolds:

 

[JoeO]

Oh - another (rather less daunting) book suggestion: Love Among The Chickens, by P. G. Wodehouse.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3829

 

[Geckolady]

It sounds like somebody needs to write some more books on chickens!

 

[NatJ]

A children's book:
Rosie the Hen, by Pat Hutchins
It's funny, but meant for children elementary age and younger.

Chaucer wrote about a rooster named Chanticleer in the Canterbury tales (written in the 1300s)

 

[Geckolady]

As a child, I had a book titled The Little Red Hen.

 

[JoeO]

There are many variations of it even one by Pete Seeger. It's a cumulative folk type children's song. Not sure what era it comes from, but definitely no demoralizing videos involved.

Meant to say, the tune quoted is best known on this side of the pond as The Campbells Are Coming, an C18 anti-Jacobite song. Which of course has nothing to do with chickens.

Unless, I suppose, one mentally inserts the words "cream of"…

 

[Beer can]

If we're including songs, mention of Pete Seeger reminds me of the great Malvina Reynolds:

Local legend here Grant Rogers also played on that show. My Grandfather played music with him.

Nothing chicken related but do remember a short verse found it;
"Rooster, rooster what makes your claws so hard?"
"From a-scratching around in this barnyard it's a wonder I ain't tired"

 

[JoeO]

This is definitely chicken related:

 

[Feathyr]

Only one that comes to mind is The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin Jr.