As soon as my desktop computer is fixed I'll try to remember to dig out the article.I believe the Egyptians were the first to start domesticating any wild fowl, the Chinese would be somewhere in that timeline too, as the first to start domesticating wild fowls....although peafowl were in India, they didn't domesticate them until after the Egyptians had been domesticating them for quite some time.
I'd be interested in reading about their incubating techniques, too! Can you point me in the correct direction to find this reading material?