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 |
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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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Table of Contents:
- 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.