On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:22:35 -0500, Keith Thomas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Here I am only guessing, but I would expect that the ancestors of our
>present poultry lay many more eggs than other wild birds of similar size:
>pheasants, ravens, magpies, hawks, pigeons.

Whoops! that should read "would NOT lay many more eggs than other wild
birds"

Sorry!

Keith