The Evolution of Chickens in the West

The modern chicken serves a lot of purposes for humans as they currently are, which may have not been so useful in the wild. We know that it must be quite soon after chickens are domesticated that they have the capacity to lay regularly, but we don't know whether that was actually selected for until much later on. Takes perhaps up to 500 years from a chicken's first appearance in an area for them to be more considered as common food. Some of the early changes may have been to do with the ther alteric astet, what do they look like? But some of the key changes you pick up on there are things like the ability to lay frequently. I mean, that is a