Chicken Husbandry in Late-Medieval Eastern England: c. 1250–1400

@inproceedings{Slavin2009ChickenHI,
  title={Chicken Husbandry in Late-Medieval Eastern England: c. 1250–1400},
  author={Philip Slavin},
  year={2009}
}
Slavin Ph. 2009. — Chicken Husbandry in Late-Medieval Eastern England: c. 1250-1400. Anthropozoologica 44(2): 35-56.. ABSTRACT The present article studies the place of the chicken within the changing environment of late-medieval England. First, it looks at the seigniorial sector of chicken farming, in terms of size of stocks, patterns of disposal and scale of consumption. It then explores the patchy data regarding the peasant sector. The study shows that overall patterns differed between the… 
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