"What the Chicken Knows" by Sy Montgomery

"What the Chicken Knows" by Sy Montgomery

For more than two decades, our guest today has kept a flock of chickens in her backyard. In her latest book, What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird, National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery takes us inside the flock and reveals all the things that make chickens such remarkable creatures: only hours after leaving the egg, they can walk, run and peck; they can recognize more than 100 other chickens; they rem…