People, this is a fantastic book about everything chicken. History, lore, behavior, the guy is am amazing writer, I can't say enough about the book! From the back cover:
Advance Praise for Home to Roost
"Reading this book is like walking down a quiet corridor of a museum, peeping into this room and that. All manner of curiosities wait discovery.
Home to Roost is a compulsively readable history of man's relationship with
Gallus domesticus, rich with anecdote, fable, and fact. Sheasley can write, and his lyrical, often droll prose winds around and through the happy maze of fact and fiction he's constructed. Even as he tackles sobering topics like avian flu and the pathetic physical and behavioral wreck we've made of the factory-farmed hen, his affection for chickens, and the people who exploit them, shines through. There's hope in the gleaming basket of pastel eggs he totes to work, and Sheasley shows by his own example the world he believes hens - and humans - richly deserve to inhabit." Julie Zickefoose, author of Letters from Eden.
I hope more of you take the time to read this, I've been glued to it all weekend (inbetween going to the Common Ground Fair) and hope to finish it tonight. So much chicken fun!
