The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds

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The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds

Author	: Janet Vorwald Dohner
File Size	: 44,7 Mb
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 January 2001
ISBN	: 9780300138139
Pages	: 528 pages

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The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds by Janet Vorwald Dohner Book PDF Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds by Janet Vorwald Dohner

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