Pyramid #3/52: Low-Tech II

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Love the Lord of the Manor stuff but I'm a bit troubled by the way poultry farming blows comparable cash crops out of the water.

That's pretty much reality . . . crowded places with poor people have more chickens than anything else. The "hard" drawbacks are diseases that wipe out all your chooks in one go and predators, neither of which is universal. (Source: A very good friend whose dad runs a poultry farm.) The "soft" downside is that people get damned tired of eating poultry for every meal; this is a problem for any high-production food item, which is why economies that lean even vaguely toward sumptuary laws tend to place a high value on harder-to-raise food, and why a noble who tried to get rich on chickens would lose face.