Fowl, Poultry & Aviculture

Depictions of bird cages in illustrati ons and paintings from the 12th-16th centuries.

Chickens in medieval & Renaissanc e iconograph y. Includes illustrati ons relating to coops and shelters built to shelter poultry.

An online encyclopedia of poultry. Any kind of domestic or semi domestic bird used as livestock. Lots of history and other links!

Goose farming on late medieval English demesnes, based on manorial accounts from several eastern counties.

Asnapium: An Inventory of One of Charlemagne's Estates, c. 800 from the Medieval Sourcebook. Examples of included items are: bed clothes, kitchen ware, farm implements, measures of dry goods and harvests, cattle and fowl, specific garden herb and trees.

Animals were present everywhere in the everyday life of the Middle Ages: wild animals, like bears, wolves, wild boars, and deer; fish; poultry and farm animals; and the companions of the warrior, the peasant, and the hunter, like horses, falcons, and dogs.

PDF of article discussing the discoverie s of 5-8th c. burials of women that also included waterbirds .

Period fowls and birds. Period chickens. References. Period breeds available now. Game hens. Birds as pets.

This translatio n of Walter of Henley&#39 ;s Treatise on Husbandry, which was written in the third quarter of the 13th century. The treatise is aimed at the owners of medium and large estates who worked their demesne lands, rather than farmed them out for cash rents, but might have little direct knowledge of agricultur e.