I know this!
You forget – I have a certificate in Chickenology from the University of Edinburgh. As part of the course work was a very interesting article called something like How the Chicken Conquered the World, but I don’t think it was this wordy article of a similar name from the Smithsonian.
Yes, the Romans had chickens and prized them. Ditto the Chinese. “The domesticated chicken has a genealogy as complicated as the Tudors, stretching back 7,000 to 10,000 years and involving, according to recent research, at least two wild progenitors and possibly more than one event of initial domestication.”
The chicken descends mainly from the red junglefowl, which came from around the Philippines, South India. That sort of area.
The way I remember it, there was one area that had a glut of food every ten years or so and the local flock would ramp up to produce an egg a day during those good times. So in domestic settings, where they were always well fed, they continued to put out a stupid amount of eggs.
When you think about it, laying an egg every day doesn’t make a lot of evolutionary sense in the wild. But it’s different in a domestic setting, when you’re rewarded for it and bred by the billions.
Someone once said, if you want to have a lot of an animal, teach humans to eat it.
Posted: December 31st, 2025 under personal.
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Comment from Uncle AL
Time: December 31, 2025, 9:40 pm
Someone once said, if you want to have a lot of an animal, teach humans to eat it.
Hey, you MinnesotansΒΉ! You need to stop eating Somali child care, school lunch, home health care, subsidized housing, Medicaid, and EBT pirates.
1. And Washingtonians, Californians, Ohioans…
Comment from QuasiModo
Time: December 31, 2025, 11:12 pm
Happy New Year, S. Weasel and friends! ππππ
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: January 1, 2026, 10:30 am
Happy morning after!
Now comes 365 days of waiting for the other shoes to drop.
Hopefully on the heads of a bunch of bobble headed skinnies and their grifting allies here and abroad.
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: January 1, 2026, 12:39 pm
Happy, Prosperous, Free New Year !!!!!! πππππππ§¨π§¨π§¨π§¨β¨ππππ§¨π§¨π§¨πππππππ
Comment from Uncle AL
Time: January 1, 2026, 1:21 pm
Congratulations to all; we made it through 2025 somehow!
May your 2026 be all you hope it will be!
Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: January 1, 2026, 6:09 pm
Did chickens arrive in Britain before the Romans?
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