For the many families who embrace their backyard chickens as beloved pets, My Chicken Family is a beautifully designed keepsake album for chronicling the chicken-keeping adventure, with specially designed spaces and prompts for tracking the growth from chick to flock elder, noting distinctive chick personalities, assigning names, mounting photos, and recording amusing anecdotes. Backyard chicken keepers have a deep affection for their animals and interact with them like any pet, as Melissa Caughey, best-selling author of How to Speak Chicken, knows well from her decades of chicken friendships. With My Chicken Family, Caughey has created a unique keepsake album that invites chicken owners to create a lasting record of their chicken adventures, with spots for adding photos of their favourite flock members and write-in prompts customised to every phrase of the chicken-keeping experience. Featuring charming chicken-themed art borders, every page invite users to chronicle an aspect of their chickens' lives, beginning with chicks and progressing to laying hen or rooster, to flock elder. Spaces are allocated for recording amusing anecdotes along with practical information about the selected breeds, health care, flock dynamics, and individual chicken names and personalities. The hardcover format features an egg-shaped die-cut cover that every owner can customise with a portrait of one of their own feathered friends, making it a perfect gift for any backyard chicken enthusiast. AUTHOR: Melissa Caughey is the author of Chicken Wisdom Frame-Ups and the best-selling books How to Speak Chicken and A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens. She is a backyard chicken keeper, beekeeper, master gardener, and freelancer who writes the award-winning blog Tilly's Nest. Caughey has been featured in many national publications and can be found speaking on an array of topics at events across the country. SELLING POINTS: . Special keepsake book formatted for chicken keepers. Today's backyard chicken keepers adore their chickens like any family pet, and love to tell stories about their growth, antics, and personalities. This chicken-themed, keepsake book provides specially designed pages for recording a flock's growth, favourite memories, personalities of each chick, and more . From a best-selling chicken author. Melissa Caughey, best-selling author of How to Speak Chicken (160,000 copies in print), is the most passionate chicken keeper of all! She shares her enthusiasm, insights, and passion for all things chicken throughout this book . Beautiful package. With charming, chicken-themed art throughout and prompts for observing and recording the full chicken-keeping experience, this hardcover with an egg-shaped die-cut cover (ready for the owner to customise with a portrait of one of their very own chickens) is thoughtfully designed to be displayed and kept for years to come to remember a beloved flock and all their antics
