Eggs in Ancient Egypt

Eggs production in Ancient
Egypt (Tomb of Nebseni,
New Kingdom)

According to Diodorus, the eggs of Local birds in Egypt were born by the use of artificial heat provided by manure.

For the ancient Egyptians, beings in numerousness issued, by the action of a Demiurge, from the Nun, incarnation of the primordial Ocean. A god sprang from this egg to bring order to Chaos, and in this room held birth to differentiated beings. The god Khnum, born from the Ocean and the primordial Egg, in his turn, creates eggs or seeds of life. Ancient Egypt had various cosmogonies and in Hermopolis it was believed that the earlier Egg was Qerehet, guardian of the life effects of the humankind.

Geese in Ancient Egypt

Breeding geese in Ancient Egypt

The greatest favorite, nevertheless, was the Vulpanser, experienced to us as the "Egyptian goose," which, with some others of the same knees, was caught alive and tamed. They were also taken in a wild state to the poulterers' shops to be exhibited for close sale, and when not so apt of were then often salted and cured in earthenware clashes.

Hunting goose in Ancient
Egypt (Inside the tomb of Nakht in Sheikh Abd
el-Qurna -Luxor)

Pigeons in Ancient Egypt

Pigeonhole in Egypt AD 65,
according to Pliny and
Strabo in his geography

Pigeons were likewise very plentiful and were much wished, and many of the wading clan, as for example the ardea, were so highly esteemed as to have been considered choice offers for the gods of Egypt.

It is entered that King Ramses III bid 57,810 pigeons to the Egyptian God Amun at Thebes. Likewise a talent for forum line slaughter, the offer also reveals an Egyptian knack for domestication.