The Children’s Storybook Garden & Museum located in the heart of downtown Hanford is gearing up for the start of spring events, the first of which will be Paitently “Poppy”
Over 20 kids flocked to the Casey Memorial Library Saturday to meet Army mom and author Tricia Stone-Shumaker, a speech pathologist and Poppy the chicken, author and star of children’s
HANFORD â At first glance, Poppy looks like your everyday rooster, but on closer inspection, one finds that itâs actually not that simple.
Poppy was born with a condition that has helped make him a social media star and the subject of a new children s book.Â
According to Hanford speech pathologist Tricia Stone-Shumaker, the issue first became apparent when he was a chick. On picking him up, her son noticed the chickâs beak was off. As it turned out, Poppy was born with a crossed beak, causing the bottom portion to jut outwards on his left side.
It also meant that Poppy couldnât feed himself. Stone-Shumaker turned to the internet to find support groups for people with cross-beaked chickens and to her surprise, found one with 3,000 members.