Home to roost a backyard farmer chases chickens through the ages
A lighthearted scientific history of the chicken is interspersed with the author's story of tending his backyard poultry farm throughout the course of a year, in an account that features such topics as the role of the chicken in folk medicine and technology, what a chicken's DNA reveals ab...
| Main Author: | Sheasley, Bob. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
A lighthearted scientific history of the chicken is interspersed with the author's story of tending his backyard poultry farm throughout the course of a year, in an account that features such topics as the role of the chicken in folk medicine and technology, what a chicken's DNA reveals about its relation to humans, and how classical music can bolster egg laying. |
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| Physical Description: |
x, 290 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-280) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780312373641 0312373643 |
| Author Notes: |
Bob Sheasley is a farm boy in the city. A lifelong Pennsylvanian, he grew up on a 100-acre dairy farm in Old Order Amish county. He works at The Philadelphia Inquirer and lives with his wife, son, and three daughters in their 1830s farmhouse, where he keeps a coop of fifty or so chickens. |