The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds Download

Author: Janet Vorwald Dohner
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0300088809

The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds

The hardy, multipurpose Dominique chickens that came to the New World with the Pilgrims and later travelled in pioneer saddlebags to help settle the West were once too numerous to count, by 1990 a mere 500 hens survived. Download The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. This is but a single example of the diminishing diversity of farm animals: half of once-common livestock breeds are endangered, others are already extinct. The need to preserve farm animal diversity is increasingly urgent, says the author of this definitive book on endangered breeds of livestock and poultry. Farmyard animals may hold critical keys for our survival, Jan Dohner warns, and with each extinction, genetic traits of potentially vital importance to our agricultural future or to medical progress are forever lost. This Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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