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 about its re...
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New York :
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Home to roost : |b a backyard farmer chases chickens through the ages / |c Bob Sheasley. |
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| 260 | |a New York : |b Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, |c c2008. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 290 p. ; |c 22 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-280) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a You come, too -- Spring: a season to sow -- Joy in the morning -- Trumpet to the morn -- Crossing the road -- Homegrown -- Summer: a season to grow -- The killing fields -- Desires of the flesh -- Chicken noodle -- Fall: a season to collect -- Joy of eggs -- One basket -- Winter: a season to reflect -- Kinder, gentler -- In sickness and health -- Home to roost -- Golden dreams. | |
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