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