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Rabbits fell out of popularity. It became an expensive meat. It used to be a good source of food and income foor poorer people, just by selling the meat or by processing the pelts. The drawback on rabbit is the very lean meat (see rabbit hunger).
The males are exceptionally aggressive as well...
Duck eggs are not for everyone. And the creatures require more water. The fatty meat is not very agreable for everyone.
Guinea fowls are excellent for clearing ticks infestations. I know they are egg laying but talking with a people that tried to raise them I got the impression that getting the birds to nest is quite hard. One person kept a chicken around to incubate the eggs from the guineas.
We're talking about historical context, not contemporary comparisons.
You can get protein toxicity from any meat, and it's not a concern unless you're starving in the middle of winter and have literally no food besides meat.
Also, ancient people didn't have factory farmed broilers, and millennia of selective breeding for meat, those chickens were lean as well.
Because cocks are gentle and don't regularly attack humans? And that's after a lot of selective breeding to make them more docile, and not for fighting.
Edit: Apparently they were domesticated a lot later.
Yeah guinea fowl were a stretch for many reasons.