10 POULTRY BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT 



there must have been fowls in the seventh century B.C. 

 Homer makes no mention of fowls, 900 B.C., but they are 

 referred to in the writings of Theognis and Aristophanes 

 about 500 B.C. The ancient Egyptian monuments are silent 

 about the fowl, though flocks of tame geese are shown. 



