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According to Columella (De Re Rustica 8.2.7), the ideal flock consists of 200 birds, which can be supervised by one person if someone is watching for stray animals.
According to Columella (De Re Rustica 8.4.1), chickens should be fed on barley groats, small chick-peas, millet and wheat bran, if they are cheap.
Delos seems to have been a center of chicken breeding (Columella, De Re Rustica 8.3.4).
Eggs that are long and pointed give more male, rounded eggs mainly female hatchlings (De Re Rustica 8.5.11).
For farming, native (Roman) chickens are to be preferred, or a cross between native hens and Greek cocks (De Re Rustica 8.2.13).
He identified Tanagrian, Rhodic, Chalkidic and Median (commonly misidentified as Melian) breeds, which have an impressive appearance, a quarrelsome nature and were used for cockfighting by the Greeks (De Re Rustica 8.3.4).
However, the sacrima used for the offering to the two gods for the preservation of grapeyards, vessels and wine Columella De Re Rustica XII 18, 4 mentions a sacrifice to Liber and Libera immediately before.
The Roman author Columella gives advice on chicken breeding in his eighth book of his treatise, De Re Rustica (On Agriculture).
This would be similar to the wealthy-person's in the city and would have painted walls. citation *The pars rustica where the chef and slaves of the villa worked and lived.