. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. 528 POULTRY POULTRY Index to Poultry Articles Page Origin of the Domestic Fowl 528 Breeding of Poultry 529 Feeding Poultry 533 Feeding Water-fowl 536 Fattening Poultry 538 Capons and Caponizing 540 Incubation and Brooding 542 Preparing and Marketing Poultry Products .... 544 Judging Poultry 547 Common Ailments of Poultry 551 Poultry-house Construction 556 Breeds and Types of Chickens 563 Ducks 569 Geese 572 Grouse, Domestication of the Ruffed 576 Guinea-fowl 578 Pheasants and Related Fowls 579 Pigeons and Squabs 582 Quail, Domest
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. 528 POULTRY POULTRY Index to Poultry Articles Page Origin of the Domestic Fowl 528 Breeding of Poultry 529 Feeding Poultry 533 Feeding Water-fowl 536 Fattening Poultry 538 Capons and Caponizing 540 Incubation and Brooding 542 Preparing and Marketing Poultry Products .... 544 Judging Poultry 547 Common Ailments of Poultry 551 Poultry-house Construction 556 Breeds and Types of Chickens 563 Ducks 569 Geese 572 Grouse, Domestication of the Ruffed 576 Guinea-fowl 578 Pheasants and Related Fowls 579 Pigeons and Squabs 582 Quail, Domestication of the Bobwhite or American . 584 Swan 585 Turkey 586 Origin of the Domestic Fowl. Gallus spp. Gallince. Fig. 524. By Charles B. Davenport. The domestic fowl belongs to the group of scratch- ing birds that includes also the turkey, guinea-fowl, pheasant, partridge, grouse. The ancestors of the domestic fowl, like those of other domestic animals, were wild species, but it does not follow that there was only one ancestral species or that all the ancestral species, if more than one, still persist. Without going into the history of ideas concerning the ancestry of fowl, it may be said that probably two species were involvedâone a wild form still common in the jungle of India, southern China and the East Indies, and known as Gallus ferrugineus, or as Gallus bankiva (Fig. 597); the other, probably an extinct progenitor of the Aseel or Malay fowl (Fig. 524). The Gallus ferruqin- ^^i«\\\^ eus is a slender- :§W»^ i\\M bodied bird, hav- J^ ing its plumage colored like that of the Black- AlO breasted Red ( jj_ Game fowl, and "^^jSjjSsj^ having a single , comb, slender Mulww 'in? W1"0VV " colored » *%{} shanks and cap- V^i" /-' ijlfj i ablnof cunsider- xIMU'MUmM$$M^ able flight. It is hwt^f â iJ'~? completely fer- ^ssanHWSBapf ^ tile with domes. Fig. 524. Aseel fowl. .. , , . ticated fowl. The other extant wild species of Gallus are much less like
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