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University of Exeter: Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than modern fowl because they were seen as sacred – not food – study shows

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Experts have developed the first reliable method of finding the age of fowl who lived thousands of years ago. Their research shows they lived to advanced ages, and were kept for ritual sacrifice or cockfighting rather than meat or egg production. Chickens today live for a few weeks (in the UK poultry birds live for […]