http://thepets4fun.com Your Source for everything PET Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:37:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://thepets4fun.com/bird/bird-keeping-since-the-beginning-the-ancient-aviculture http://thepets4fun.com/bird/bird-keeping-since-the-beginning-the-ancient-aviculture#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:47:43 +0000 admin http://thepets4fun.com/?p=743 There has been an interest in keeping birds for thousands of years. For example, I find it interesting that Ancient Phoenicians brought peafowl to the Pharaohs of Egypt and that King Solomon owned some as well. During the reign of Alexander the Great, it was a crime to kill a peafowl, yet during the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, they were served as food. The first white peafowl mutation occurred in England in the 1700s.]]> http://thepets4fun.com/bird/bird-keeping-since-the-beginning-the-ancient-aviculture/feed 0