Show ancestor of the hen may have been a jungle fowl the ancestor of the hen is believed to be the jungle fowl known as gallas ban kiva which is found in the jungles of north india brahma and siam states a writer in the boston globe they were first mentioned in history by the chinese emperor fu hsi who lived about B C one writer has stat stated ld from the evidence that has come to fo us it would appear that the sport of cockfighting cock fighting has as much responsibility for the domestication ti of the fowl as the demand for food and that when once it was brought into the service of man sport was chiefly instrumental in making the species popular it is not certain whether all the breeds of poultry that we know date back to this common ancestry or not some believe that the lighter breeds such as the leghorns Leg horns bated from this jungle fowl and that the heavier breeds probably from rom the malay fowl |