On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:32 Jean-Claude Catry <[log in to unmask]>
wrote (under topic <Another try>:

>chicken eggs are the result of a selective breeding involving an unatural
>diet for chickens disrupting their hormonal balance ( grains do that to
>them - good for quantity of eggs,  bad for quality  )
>jean-claude

Oh dear!  I was hoping to switch to eggs and poultry as a mainstay which
would be Paleo; now you have me worried!

I accept what you say about grains being unnatural for hens (apart from in
the harvest season), and that the poultry around us now are significantly
different from the poultry of Java Man.  But I'll be running the hens free
range and organic with plenty of greens, insects etc. as they forage
around the fallow parts of my vegetable garden.  As to the animals
themselves, I'd assumed contemporaty poultry would be no further from the
Paleolithic phenotype than Bos taurus.  Or am I mistaken?  Do you have
references to any discussion on this topic?  Another option for me would
be Guinea Pigs or Rabbits, but they don't lay eggs!  (My main meat will
still be fresh kangaroo - about as Paleo as you can get!)

Keith