Too Many Chickens

by Mary Pride

Book Overview

Farmer Apple's pigs feel that there are too many chickens depleting the corn supply. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561210102
• ISBN13: 9781561210107
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc.
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

pigs will be pigs

Who gave the pig so much say over the hen house ? The hens did. This book is such,,,,the best example I have seen so far about how it IS OK to have a large family. How come the pigs ideas are more important ? Hen AND HER CHICKS save the farm and the lives of all the animals because she stood for her beliefs, even when the going got tough. We all should be that firm in our faith. Hey, don't let those greedy pigs tell you how to live, but don't prove them right either. Be responsible and set a wonderful example for them. Let your LIGHT shine.

Explains to children the myth of overpopulation

"Too Many Chickens" is the story of a farm where some greedy pigs force the chickens to give them half the corn feed. Then the pigs get even greedier and force the chickens to cut way back on their egg-laying so there will be fewer chickens to eat the corn. The chickens then form a "Two-Egg Club," except Mrs. Pinfeather and her seven chicks. When they are forced out of the farmyard, it turns into a blessing when they gorge themselves with corn in the cornfield, then return to warn the other animals of a fire approaching the farm. Thanks to them, the farm is saved. This book is a good way to teach children that all human beings are precious in God's sight, inside AND outside the womb. --- Paul H!