Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens by Arthur Parkinson #foliosociety

Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens by Arthur Parkinson #foliosocietyA captivating testament to the mutual rewards and delights of keeping chickens, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Flower Yard Most of us want a dog, or a cat, or a pony when we are young but for Arthur Parkinson, it was always hens. Growing up in an ex mining town in Nottinghamshire, the other kids in the playground called him 'Chicken Boy'. The quiet fulfilment of keeping hens became his sanctuary, a tonic for mental and physical health,

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