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Art and Science in Breeding : Creating Better Chickens / Margaret Derry.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Derry, Margaret E. (Margaret Elsinor), 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chickens--Breeding--Canada--History.
- Chickens.
- Chickens--Breeding--United States--History.
- Chickens--Genetic engineering--Canada--History.
- Chickens--Genetic engineering--United States--History.
- Chicken industry--Canada--History.
- Chicken industry.
- Chicken industry--United States--History.
- United States.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Margaret E. Derry traces the history and organization of chicken breeding in North America, from craft approaches and breeding as an 'art, ' to the conflicts that had emerged between traditional and scientific methods by the 1940s. Derry assesses links between the 'scientific' revolution of chicken farming and the development of corporate breeding as a modern, international industry. Using poultry as a case study for the wider narrative of agricultural genetics, Art and Science in Breeding adds considerable knowledge to a rapidly growing field of inquiry."--Pub. desc.
- "Chickens are now the most scientifically engineered of livestock. How have the methods used by geneticists differed from those employed by domestic breeders over time? Art and Science in Breeding details the relationship between farm practices and agricultural genetics in poultry breeding from 1850 to 1960.
- Contents:
- 1. Historical Background: Chickens, Those Lowly Creatures
- 2. From Barnyard Scavenger on to Bird of Beauty and Use
- 3. The Development of Agricultural Genetics in Relation to North American Chicken Breeding
- 4. Breeding for Eggs: Conflict between Science and Craft
- 5. The "Scientizing" of Breeding in the Egg Industry
- 6. North American Chicken Breeding and the Rise of the Broiler Industry
- 7. Epilogue: Global Trends in Chicken Breeding after 1950.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9781442698246
- 1442698241
- 9781442698239
- 1442698233
- OCLC:
- 794619696
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