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    Poultry Book Club

    My focus is on traditional breeds, as compared to commercial hybrids. I know they are convenient for backyarders, and often produce eggs well for a year or two, but the traditional breeds have value historically and genetically. Don't overlook them. Traditional breeds carry important...
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    Poultry Book Club

    Writing the first chapter, Why Keep Chickens?, was a challenge because I hadn't given much thought to Why. I enjoyed them and couldn't imagine not having them, once I got involved with them. But putting that into words was something else. I wanted to touch on all aspects. The practical are...
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    Poultry Book Club

    The idea for the book was originally to be an informative book on traditional breeds. The publisher wanted a more comprehensive husbandry book, so that's what it became, but with a long section on breeds. I enjoy that part, but my desire to research and write more about the breeds wasn't...
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    Poultry Book Club

    I found the poem in the Complete Poems when my daughter was young. We liked to memorize poems. She loved horses, so we learned The Runaway, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. We learned Mending Wall, and we found Blue Ribbon and memorized it. When I contacted the agent for permission to...
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    Poultry Book Club

    I'm ready to start -- and I wrote the book! One of my personal favorite parts is Robert Frost's poem about his favorite chicken, A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury. His chicken, like Mother Eve, was a White Wyandotte.
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    Poultry Book Club

    Tyler, you are a fountain of useful information!
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    Poultry Book Club

    I'm in! I'll get a copy of the book this week.
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    Chicken Literary events

    Yes, that's me. Thanks! The new book encompasses other kinds of poultry beyond chickens -- ducks, geese, swans, turkeys, game birds, ratites -- but it has a chapter on chickens, too.
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    Chicken Literary events

    Let me introduce myself. I've been involved with the Society for Preservation of Poultry Antiquities for many years. I served as publicity director from 2000-2008 and became historian in 2008. I've written two books about raising traditional poultry breeds in small flocks, How to Raise Chickens...
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