How did 'chicken' influence human history at all?

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Chickens are birds who have been involved with human beings for a long time, not only becoming an important source of food but sometimes being sanctified and exhorted. A movie that explains how such chickens have influenced the history of mankind is published on YouTube.

History through the eyes of a chicken - Chris A. Kniesly


Tutmes III , an ancient Egyptian king, refers to chickens as a certain "amazing foreign bird". "That bird will give birth to what a daily birth," Tutmes III said.

Also, Zoroastrianism recognized chickens as having a special spiritual power.

It seems that heard chickens were believed to convey about the struggle of darkness and light of the universe.

The Romans are using chickens for military purpose ... ...

I regarded it as a predicting victory in the future battle.

Even today, chickens are deeply involved with humans.

Chicken is very popular as a dinner feast.

An ancestor of a chicken ......

It is thought that it is a bird of the pheasant family called sexchyakkei . All three related species ... ...

He inhabited India and Southeast Asia.

Bamboo growing in this area has a large amount of fruits with rich nutrition only once in decades.

It is said that the special ability of the sexkyoke who frequently gives birth is to breed without missing this time when food is abundantly enriched.

The ability to give birth frequently was also useful for humans. Sekketsukei is not good at flying and can easily be captured.

Also, we do not need such a large space to keep.

It is thought that the breeding of chickens said to have grown home to sexxxxx has been done about 7000 years ago ......

Initially, the chickens were not bred for food purposes.

Breeding chickens become very aggressive.

Chickens were raised for " bird fighting " that puts blades on their feet and made them fight violently.

Cockfighting has become popular as an entertainment for the common people.

By about 2000 BC, chickens spread from the Indus River to China and the Middle East. It is a chick that was treated as a religious existence in many countries ... ...

Egyptians found new ways of using chickens.

When chickens naturally lay eggs, they sit still for about three weeks to hatch the eggs at the time of laying about six eggs, and will not produce any more eggs.

By about 1000 BC the Egyptians found that they could put basketed eggs on hot ashes and artificially hatch them.

This makes it unnecessary for humans to wait until chickens hatch eggs. By collecting eggs from the birthplace, chickens will lay eggs one after the other ... ...

The collected eggs became a human diet.

About the time the Egyptians found an artificial hatching method, the Phoenician merchant brought chickens to Europe.

The chicken soon became a major poultry in Europe.

In Europe, while chicken is useful as food, it seems that it was also seen as sacred existence.

Ancient Greeks used cockfighting ... ...

I used it to give young soldiers inspiration for fighting.

Also, in Rome it was thought that chicken was a throne propagating existence.

In addition, chickens were also seen as a symbol of Christianity.

After that chickens will be brought to new land where human beings advanced, such as trade and conquest.

After the opium war , Chinese chickens were brought to the UK ......

British chickens mated with Chinese chickens.

This triggered a boom concerning the breed improvement of chickens, and farmers in Europe started trying to create new varieties.

Charles Darwin has a theory that it was thought that the process of breeding inherited in the progeny might have occurred in the natural world by seeing this breeding boom and combining specific traits.

This is not the only effect that chicken gave to science. The chickens have many traits, and since the generation alternates in just 7 months, it was perfect for genetic related research.

As a result of research using chickens, it was invented that a figure called " Panet Square " is used to predict the genotype to be expressed.

Larger varieties by breed improvement ... ...

Chickens with more muscle mass were born.

Also, varieties that lay many eggs are made.

In recent years, chicken production model has become industrial one.

The space given per bird is very narrow ...

The chickens raised in a state confined in a narrow case are more than 22 billion birds worldwide.

From ancient times to today, chickens have given so many influences to human society.