This book focuses on chicken breeding and the organization of breeding in the United States and Canada between 1850 and roughly 1960. The primary objective is to learn how genetics is interrelated with traditional practices on farms. I am interested in the connection and/or non-connection of agricultural livestock breeding with academic biology. The subject of chicken breeding in North America is useful on such a study for two specific reasons. Chickens have become the most scientifically engineered of livestock. The North American chicken-breeding world also illustrates clearly how regulations could parade as breeding methodology.
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