SC - egg sizes

[Stefan li Rous]

Ras said:
> Interesting. Is there any indication that chickens remained that small for
> the next 1,200 to 1,300 years which would then bring this size chicken within
> the realms of documented period cookery? Given the obvious advances in
> breeding within other types of crops and farm animals during the same period,
> I find this highly unlikely, personally. Also was there any indication of the
> age of the chickens that the bones came from?

But then in the next message he said:
> Which vindicates my earlier supposition that eggs (or at least chicken eggs)
> were small eggs. This is the size I have most often used in period cookery
> myself.

I certainly think that if the chickens grew in size then the eggs would
also grow in size but you seem to be argueing for the opposite, chickens
that grew in size but eggs that stayed small. While I certainly think this
is more likely than large eggs with small chickens, it seems less likely
than both increasing in size unless there is some other constraining factor.

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