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Blue Dot: The fascinating lives (really!) of chickens with author Sy Montgomery

Sy Montgomery with a chicken friend
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Sy Montgomery with a chicken friend

Got an ornery rooster? The way to deal with them may be a surprise to you!

Hint: it definitely doesn't involve violence.

In this episode, Host Dave Schlom interviews nature and wildlife writer Sy Montgomery, whose Soul of An Octopus was a National Book Award finalist, about her latest work.

In What The Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird, Montgomery uses her decades of experience raising chickens at her home in rural New Hampshire to deliver a fascinating and compelling look at the surprising skills, capabilities and social mores of the backyard and coup dwellers.

Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.