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Hen: an adult female chicken [9] Pullet: a young female chicken less than a year old. [10] In the poultry industry, a pullet is a sexually immature chicken less than 22 weeks of age. [11] Rooster: a fertile adult male chicken, especially in North America.
An illustration of the ideal Black Java rooster in the American Standard of Perfection cir. 1905. The Java is a breed of chicken originating in the United States. Despite the breed's name, a reference to the island of Java, it was developed in the U.S. from chickens of unknown Asian extraction. It is one of the oldest American chickens, forming ...
Nettie Metcalf, who created the breed in 1896. The Buckeye was first bred and developed in 1896, by Nettie Metcalf, a resident of Warren, Ohio. [6]: 56 It is the only American breed of chicken known to have been developed by a woman, although women customarily were in charge of the household poultry flock on farms and in households throughout much of U.S. history.
Illustration of thirty-nine varieties of chicken (and one Guinea Fowl) . There are hundreds of chicken breeds in existence. [1] Domesticated for thousands of years, distinguishable breeds of chicken have been present since the combined factors of geographical isolation and selection for desired characteristics created regional types with distinct physical and behavioral traits passed on to ...
Figure 1. Feathering types in ten-day-old chicks.Left: Fast normal-feathering chick. Right: Delayed-feathering chick carrying sex-linked K gene. Delayed-feathering in chickens is a genetically determined delay in the first weeks of feather growing, which occurs normally among the chicks of many chicken breeds and no longer manifests itself once the chicken completes adult plumage.
A rooster's medium-sized and accurately toothed comb is simple (single) and set upright, while its wattle is intensively red and can reach short to medium sizes. [3] Males have a less pronounced tassel built of a few long feathers. [5] A rooster's brown-red neck should be medium long and straight. Black-coloured and wide chest is well-rounded ...
In the early twentieth century, the cross of a Barred Plymouth Rock rooster on a New Hampshire hen was a common choice for producing broilers. Occasionally, this mating produces sports with light coloration. George Ellis of Delaware selectively bred these light-colored birds, which led to the creation of the breed in 1940.
Characteristics [ edit ] The head, neck hackle and tail of the Lakenvelder are solid black, without spots, ticks or stripes; the inner web of the wing primaries and secondaries is black.