[Northkeep] More About Chickens
Pukhta 'Pooky' Lovtsevich
pookyloves at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 22:20:28 PDT 2011
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Pooky
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:49 AM, <Anawyn at aol.com> wrote:
> Hm-m, ya just have to wonder...did they count their chickens before they
> hatched?...;->
>
>
> In a message dated 3/21/2011 11:25:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> kiamichikate at gmail.com writes:
>
> It was really interesting to find this article about Chicken Husbandry in
> the Middle Ages, following our conversation about the fowl.
>
> http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/23772_35_56_HD_N.pdf
>
> For those who are not inclined to read a 22 page scholarly article about
> the
> intricacies of raising poultry on a demense in England, let me summarize:
>
> Before the Black Death swept through Britain in the 14th century, most
> poultry was raised on the manor. Chickens comprised about half of the
> avian
> stock (the rest were geese, ducks, pigeons, etc.). Most manors maintained
> between 5 and 15 chickens, with some stocks as large as 100 chickens.
> Records indicate that the average hen produced around 50 eggs per year, but
> most scholars think this is a low number, even with the cold winters,
> moulting season, and, of course, the breeding season. After the plague
> wiped out 40% of the human population, the chickens went to the
> peasants, while geese, peacocks and other less egg-productive birds
> remained
> with the noble and upper gentry. Most likely a status thing.
>
> Franziska
>
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