Home to Roost

Home to Roost

By Bob Sheasley

Subjects: Chickens, Anecdotes

Description: 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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