Comments on: Chickens are like people http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/chickens-are-like-people/ Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices Sat, 26 May 2012 04:14:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: dave chamberlin http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/chickens-are-like-people/comment-page-1/#comment-24324 dave chamberlin Fri, 21 May 2010 14:16:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=4297#comment-24324 One more chicken fact and what made them so important in early agricultural history. Free range chickens do one thing all day long, they search the ground for anything that moves and promptly eat it. They were DDT on two legs. Every early farm had free range chickens roaming about during the day to keep the parasitic and disease bearing insect population under control. It is easy to imagine a gradual domestication proccess much like has been supposed with the dog. Don't kill that wild bird, he is eating ticks, lice and mosquitos. Don't kill that wild dog, he alerts us every time a stranger or large carnivore approaches. One more chicken fact and what made them so important in early agricultural history. Free range chickens do one thing all day long, they search the ground for anything that moves and promptly eat it. They were DDT on two legs. Every early farm had free range chickens roaming about during the day to keep the parasitic and disease bearing insect population under control. It is easy to imagine a gradual domestication proccess much like has been supposed with the dog. Don’t kill that wild bird, he is eating ticks, lice and mosquitos. Don’t kill that wild dog, he alerts us every time a stranger or large carnivore approaches.

]]> By: gcochran http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/chickens-are-like-people/comment-page-1/#comment-24291 gcochran Thu, 20 May 2010 23:57:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=4297#comment-24291 "Chickens are like people" Other way round. “Chickens are like people”

Other way round.

]]> By: dave chamberlin http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/chickens-are-like-people/comment-page-1/#comment-24290 dave chamberlin Thu, 20 May 2010 23:43:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=4297#comment-24290 I'll bet nobody else who reads GNXP has lived amounst chickens. Well I have, not that it is anything to brag about. As long as you can keep the dag burned varmits in them thar woods away from them they are an incredible source of food. Their favorite food is our garbage. Each hen produces an egg a day. It is an incredible payoff to an easy and delicious meal a day to just keep three of the cluckers alive and well fed. It wouldn't suprise me a bit if chicken domestication has a long curve extending way back past 10,000 years ago, much like man's best friend. I’ll bet nobody else who reads GNXP has lived amounst chickens. Well I have, not that it is anything to brag about. As long as you can keep the dag burned varmits in them thar woods away from them they are an incredible source of food. Their favorite food is our garbage. Each hen produces an egg a day. It is an incredible payoff to an easy and delicious meal a day to just keep three of the cluckers alive and well fed. It wouldn’t suprise me a bit if chicken domestication has a long curve extending way back past 10,000 years ago, much like man’s best friend.

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