LEGHORN CHICKEN

relatively small, white-colored breed of poultry that currently dominates the American egg-producing class. The bird, as bred today, produces a good number of chalk white eggs, a feature which has brought it to the forefront of modern commercial egg production. Although only the "single comb" variety is popular today, many other strains with large egg, better shell, better interior egg qualities, or other desirable traits, are retained as breeding stock.

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books on: Leghorn Chicken  - 36 results

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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Book by Anne Fausto-Sterling; Basic Books, 2000
Subjects: Gender Identity, Hermaphroditism, Sex (Biology), Sex Differences, Sex Differentiation, Sex Role
...For example, the male Brown Leghorn chicken has black, round-tipped breast...long, and pointed. The female Leghorn has salmon, round-tipped breast...the breast feather of the Brown Leghorn capon might be used as an indicator...
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Evolution, Genesis and Revelations, with Readings from Empedocles to Wilson
Book by C. Leon Harris; State University of New York Press, 1981
Subjects: Evolution--History, Science--History, Science--Philosophy
...Amherst. Kosin, I. L. and Kato, M. 1963. "A failure to induce heritable changes in four generations of the white leghorn chicken by inter- and intra-specific blood transfusion". Genetical Res. 4:221-239. Kottler, M. J. 1974. "Alfred...
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Expression of the Emotions in Man
Book by Peter H. Knapp; International Universities Press, 1963
Subjects: Emotions
...differences can be tolerated is fundamental to the survival of society in this shrinking world. Introducing a white leghorn chicken into a coop with Rhode Island reds will inevitably arouse destructive emotions. Mans attitudes may be more advanced...
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Learning and Emotion: A Biological Synthesis - Vol. 1
Book by Peter J. Livesey; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986
Subjects: Emotions--Physiological Aspects, Learning--Physiological Aspects, Nervous System--Evolution, Physiology, Comparative
...discrimination reversal, 175 phylogenetic significance of, 175 - 177 significance of multiple cues in, 176 - 177 Leghorn chicken, 179 , 180 Lenuroids, 201 Lemurs, 176 brain size, 75 niches, 86 Lepidosiren , 26 , 54 Libypitheus , 76 , 80 Life...
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The Cell and Protoplasm
Book by Forest Ray Moulton; Science Press, 1940
Subjects: Cells, Protoplasm
...injections of thyroxin is expressed by a dark pigment spot or stripe on the brown or yellow feathers of the brown Leghorn chicken. The same injection, if the amount is appropriately gauged, may affect individual feathers differently according...
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journal articles on: Leghorn Chicken  - 13 results

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The Dominant White, Dun and Smoky Color Variants in Chicken Are Associated with Insertion/deletion Polymorphisms in the Pmel17 Gene
Journal article by Susanne Kerje, Preety Sharma, Ulrika Gunnarsson, Hyun Kim; Genetics, Vol. 168, 2004
Subjects: Birds, Genes, Genetics, Genotype & phenotype, Mutation, Polymorphism
...Color Variants in Chicken Are Associated with...characteristic of White Leghorns giving the birds...arose in a White Leghorn line fixed for Dominant...any of the other chicken PMEL17 sequences...between the White Leghorn lines L13 from Sweden...plumage phenotypes in chicken. This conclusion...jungle fowl/White Leghorn intercross were...
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Dissection of the Genetic Architecture of Body Weight in Chicken Reveals the Impact of Epistasis on Domestication Traits
Journal article by Arnaud Le Rouzic, José M. Álvarez-Castro, Örjan Carlborg; Genetics, Vol. 179, 2008
Subjects: Data analysis, Genomics, Population, Quantitative genetics, Research methodology, Studies, Time series
...strong pairwise effects. Chicken domestication: The domestication of chickens occurred ~6000 bc from the...relationships between the different chicken breeds (including egg...2006). Although the White Leghorn is an egg-layer breed...total weight, as Leghorn chickens are now around twice as large...
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Mutations in Slc45a2 Cause Plumage Color Variation in Chicken and Japanese Quail
Journal article by Ulrika Gunnarsson, Anders R. Hellström, Michele Tixier-Boichard, Francis Minvielle; Genetics, Vol. 175, 2007
Subjects: Albinism, Birds, Deoxyribonucleic acid--DNA, Genetics, Membrane Transport Proteins, Mutation, RNA, Messenger
...associated with Silver in chicken. One of these (Leu347Met...exception of White Leghorn. We therefore postulate...Silver phenotype among chickens. Seven birds with...with Silver in White Leghorns is causative. This...that Silver in White Leghorns is caused by a regulatory...different strains of White Leghorn. There has been strong...the Silver locus in chicken since the presence...white color in White Leghorns. All breeds included...
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Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Susceptibility to Marek's Disease Virus in a Backcross Population of Layer Chickens
Journal article by E. M. Heifetz, J. E. Fulton, N. P. O'Sullivan, J. A. Arthur, J. Wang, J. C. M Dekkers, M. Soller; Genetics, Vol. 177, 2007
Subjects: Avian flu, Birds, Chromosomes, Deoxyribonucleic acid--DNA, Gene loci, Genetic Markers, Genetic markers, Genomics, Growth hormones, Immunization, Mortality, Population genetics
...assigned according to the consensus 2000 chicken linkage map (http://iowa.thearkdb...discrepancy between the consensus map and the chicken sequence (http://www.ensembl...approximately two-thirds of the 4000 cM chicken genome (Groenen et al 2000) was scanned...
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An Improved Method for Quantitative Trait Loci Detection and Identification of Within-line Segregation in F^sub 2^ Intercross Designs
Journal article by Lars Rönnegård, Francois Besnier, Örjan Carlborg; Genetics, Vol. 178, 2008
Subjects: Design, Gene loci, Generations, Genetics, Genomics, Matrix, Segregation
...1998), Jungle Fowl and White Leghorn chicken (Kerje et al. 2003), and selected...and the Red Jungle Fowl 3 White Leghorn F2 cross no polygenic effects were...divergently selected bodyweight chicken lines described in Jacobsson et...
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magazine articles on: Leghorn Chicken  - 9 results

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Chicken Wisdom: Pontifications from the Poultry Pundit
Magazine article by Shepherd Bliss; Whole Earth, Winter 2002
Subjects: Chickens--Behavior, Chickens--History, Chickens--Varieties, Livestock
...Mediterraneans, like the leghorn, tend to be more feisty and...others choose trees. Some chickens like humans, whereas others...early experiences with us. A chickens environment has much to do...determining its psyche. Caring for chickens includes providing food, water, and shelter, protection, chicken furniture, and the appropriate...
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Love Me: A Short Story
Magazine article by Garrison Keillor; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 292, July 2003
...washer and have a thing about chickens. I am a successful career...sheets and pillowcases with chickens on them. Sixteen chicken tablecloths. A recorded rooster...me every morning. I have a Leghorn chicken night light. If I dont wash...
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Endangered Dinner
Magazine article by Martin Teitel; Sierra, Vol. 81, January 1996
Subjects: Biological diversity conservation--Citizen participation, Domestication--Environmental aspects, Endangered species--Protection
...extinct since 1900. Nine out of ten chicken eggs in the United States are laid by one breed, the white leghorn. And only two varieties of green peas...expanding the market for another breed of chicken. Resisting monoculture can be as easy...cattle, many could find room for a few chickens. The lumbering black Australorp hens...
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Saving Seeds
Magazine article by Bob Wildfong; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 25, Winter 1999
Subjects: Biological diversity--Environmental aspects, Food crops--Environmental aspects, Seeds--Environmental aspects
...preferred variety (the only chicken that would grace the table...restaurants), Plymouth Barred Rock chickens (top)can no longer be found...pigs, White Jersey Giant chickens all teeter on the brink of...Plymouth Barred Rock, Brown Leghorn, Canadas Chantecler, have...50 birds. Thus, the lowly chicken, the most universal and important...
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Backyard Poultry
Magazine article by Karen E. Klein; Sunset, Vol. 196, April 1996
Subjects: Composting, Eggs, Poultry
...the garage, sinking chicken wire into a 6-inch...have learned is that chickens must be kept safe...original pair of white Leghorn chickens to marauding...enclosed area for the chickens to walk around in...sleep in at night. A Leghorn coop should have at...Dont skimp on the chicken wire, though. Make...of chicks. White Leghorns are the most popular...called sex-linked chickens, hybrids that are...
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newspaper articles on: Leghorn Chicken  - 18 results

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Unscrambling the Egg Debate; Sadly, Many Folk around the Planet Would Crawl over Broken Glass to Get Their Hands on a Month-Old Cackleberry Laid by a Clinically Depressed White Leghorn
Newspaper article; Daily News (Warwick, Australia), August 22, 2009
...Cackleberry Laid by a Clinically Depressed White Leghorn. WHILE pondering one of the big questions in life this week - namely the whole chicken and egg thing - in the context of the...cackleberry laid by a clinically depressed White Leghorn. Indeed, I would go so far as to say...
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Roasted by Chicken; Election 2010 the Final Coop
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 7, 2010
...General Election since Foghorn Leghorn was a chick. And all because...know which came first, the chicken not the egg." As I told...but wholl come last? The chicken or the Clegg?" By now my...paid tribute to the Mirror chicken yesterday. In a key editorial...These men and women, and chickens, deserve our thanks for their...
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A Townie Chicken Run ; PET PROJECT: Catherine and Mark by the Hen House with Sons Noah and Dylan. Right: The Variety of Eggs Their Hens Lay
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 6, 2008
Subjects: Poultry industry
...Oxfordshire company supplies hensand chicken houses, including the iconic...converts to looking after chickens is Catherine Scott and hergraphic...of ninedifferent species of chicken, which live in a large enclosure...Buff Orpington, an Exchequer Leghorn, a golden Brahma, a Maran...should keep three or more chickens. Theyre sociable creatures...
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Why Should We Listen to These Chicken Nuggets?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 18, 2010
Subjects: Blackburn Rovers, Meat industry, Premier League
...Why Should We Listen to These Chicken Nuggets? Byline: DES KELLY...into Ewood Park, picked up a chicken burger and complained that...backside doesnt make you a chicken, so buying a football club...what? For all the Foghorn Leghorn bravado he knows his stuff...
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Settlers Used Chickens to Make Extra Money
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 25, 2010
Subjects: Poultry industry--Economic aspects
...told them about the white Leghorn chickens he had introduced on his Arlington...alley to deliver his eggs and chickens and fresh vegetables directly...her fathers skills. But the chickens were the brighter memory...in The New Yorker, "the chicken, that thing with feathers...
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encyclopedia articles on: Leghorn Chicken  - 2 results

 
 
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Leghorn Chicken
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LEGHORN CHICKEN relatively small, white-colored breed of poultry that currently dominates the American egg-producing class. The bird, as...
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Poultry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Galliformes, e.g., the chicken, turkey , guinea fowl , pheasant...poultry birds, including the chicken and the goose, were domesticated...The chief poultry bird is the chicken, which probably originated...United States today is the White Leghorn chicken . Dual-purpose meat...


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