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The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds
by Janet Vorwald Dohner
New Haven, CT, 2001.
A.R. Mann Library’s Core Historical Literature of Agriculture is a digital collection of historical books and journals on United States agriculture and rural life published between the early nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century. The collection covers a range of agricultural sciences, forestry, food science, human nutrition, and rural sociology. It includes scientific texts, handbooks, memoirs, local government publications, transactions of early agricultural societies, government publications, and farm journals. The collection includes quite a few volumes from the Rice Poultry Collection.
Founded in 1977, the non-profit American Livestock Breeds Conservancy works to conserve historic breeds and genetic diversity in livestock. Their website provides information about breeds and conservation effort; the links page is outstanding.
Barry Koffler, the creator of this vast, constantly evolving site, describes it as “An on-line zoological garden of domestic poultry, including photos, video and information about various breeds of fowl, such as chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, peafowl, pigeons, and turkeys. Various wildfowl are also included.” Packed with information and an awful lot of fun!
From the homepage of this lively site:
“Mad City Chickens started out as a group of like-minded, pro-poultry people (also known as the "poultry underground"). Our aim is to educate the urban population on the benefits of raising ones own food, and to bring to light the misconceptions people might have about the raising of poultry in an urban setting.”
Established in 1999 to provide information to the pioneers of the urban chicken movement. Includes the largest and fastest growing chicken forum on the net, with more than 11,000 members.