October
03
/ 2021
Roughly 18,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in New Guinea loved nothing more than a good fried egg and a lump of roasted bird meat. And to enjoy these treats more easily, they turned to bird breeding. They bred one of the deadliest birds on the planet: the Cassowary, with its terrifyingly sharp claws. The term “poultry farming” refers not only to the breeding of chickens but to any form of animal husbandry with domesticated birds. If you were to Google search “first farmed birds in the world,” such as I did, you will discover that the greylag goose ( Anser anser) was the first domesticated bird in ancient Egypt that emerged about 3,000 years ago. Tomorrow, however, or maybe even later
