Title: Home to Roost
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.
Subjects: Chickens, Anecdotes, Poultry, Bird watching, Birds, united states