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Barred cock and hen, illustration from Jean Bungartz, Geflügel-Album, 1885 Egg. The Plymouth Rock is an American breed of domestic chicken.It was first seen in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century and for much of the early twentieth century was the most widely kept chicken breed in the United States.
A roasted Cornish game hen A Cornish game hen ready for the oven. Cornish game hen (also Rock Cornish game hen) is the USDA-approved name for a particular variety of broiler chicken, produced from a cross between the Cornish and White Plymouth Rock chicken breeds, that is served young and immature, weighing no more than two pounds (900 g) ready to cook.
Plymouth Rock breed The generalist breeds used in barnyards worldwide are adaptable utility birds good at producing both meat and eggs. Though some may be slightly better for one of these purposes, they are usually called dual-purpose breeds.
Most of the brown eggs in the U.S. are produced by a type of chicken breed called Rhode Island Red or Plymouth Rock, while many of the white eggs are made by White Leghorn chickens, he says ...
A Black Java hen; the Java played a role in the creation of some of the American class breeds, such as the Rhode Island Red. The American Class contains thirteen breeds which originated in Canada or the United States. [1]: 11 All are heavy breeds, and most lay brown eggs; [1]: 11 most are cold-hardy: [2] Buckeye; Chantecler; Delaware; Dominique ...
There are several chicken breeds having solid white as the most typical plumage color, such as Leghorn, Dorking, Bresse Gauloise, Polish, Wyandotte and others. And there are many other breeds better known by their colored varieties, which also have a solid white variety, such as Plymouth Rock, Orpington, Rhode Island Red, Jersey Giant and ...
This is a list of chicken breeds usually considered to originate in Canada and the United States. [1] [2] ... Plymouth Rock: Pyncheon: Rhode Island Red: Rhode Island ...
Some of the earliest books on poultry include these as a valuable American breed. [11]: 97 Some were exhibited at the first American poultry show, held in Boston in 1849. [9]: 429 In the 1860s the Plymouth Rock was created by cross-breeding Black Java with large single-combed Dominiques; it was first exhibited in 1869. [2]