I'm enjoying how everyone is getting involved with this chicken  question.  
They all seem to be having fun with the discussion.  I  recognize several names 
having read their faunal  papers.  

One gentleman mentioned having buried avian  skeletons.  He then dug them up 
8 months later to find that most of the  bones had disintegrated.  Well .... I 
have avian bones that had been buried  for YEARS and they were all PERFECT 
when I dug them up!  Hey ... look  at the 150 - 200 year old bird bones from 
Ballast Point.  They're in  wonderful condition.  So it depends on how they were 
buried.  The same  applies for human bodies in crime scene  forensics.   

I agree with the person who brought up dogs  and pigs loving chicken bones.  
Lots of people had a pig or two.  Lots  had dogs.  Both were allowed to have 
free range (feral pigs and  dogs).  I know pigs were fed leftovers (dogs too).  
Why not chicken  bones.  Hey ... I watch CSI -- they had a show where a 
murder fed his  victims to his pigs.  Yum!  

Paula Reynolds, faunal  analyst
Fort Guijarros Museum Lab







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