A young boy takes good care of his pet chicken, and when she is grown up she gives him a surprise.

Nadie quiere una mofeta. No se abre la puerta a una mofeta. No se la invita a pasar. Especialmente, si en la casa se desarrolla una "importante labor petrológica". Y, por supuesto, jamás se debería permitir que se mudara allí. Pero Mofeto ha llegado a casa de Tejón para quedarse, y no hay nada que él pueda hacer al respecto. Aunque su mundo se ponga patas arriba. The last thing Badger wants is a roommate, and certainly not Skunk, but since...

The barnyard hens laugh when the bossy rooster meets his match in the weather vane rooster.

A day in the life of a chicken and her chicks.

Unaware that his mother and all the other hens are convinced that he has been eaten by a cat, a chick called Benito explores the garden, dropping grains of wheat as he goes so he can find his way back home but attracting the hungry birds.

En lo alto de una colina un zorro observa a una gallina hambrienta. El zorro se pone muy delgado esperando que la gallina se engorde mucho. A greedy fox watches a hungry hen growing bigger every day, knowing that the longer he waits to eat her, the bigger she will be.

"Había una vez cuatro gallinas que vivían felices en su gallinero. Pero un día descubrieron que, misteriosamente, sus huevos desaparecían... Y decidieron investigar."--P. [4] of cover.

Albert, the only white pig on the farm, and Lila, a chicken too old to lay eggs, suffer the ridicule of their fellow animals until they join forces and defeat a hungry fox who comes to call.

Cocorico the chick runs into trouble while collecting firewood for his mother.

When Rosalie can't find her hen Blanca in time for the annual blessing of the animals on the Feast of St. Francis, she finds a way around the problem and receives a surprise besides.