PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKEN

one of the most popular early breeds of poultry. The Barred Plymouth Rock was a favorite farm chicken since it was both a good egg producer and also developed a large quantity of meat. As the demand for white eggs increased, the breed lost popularity. It is still retained for breeding purposes, a popular cross being that of a Barred Plymouth Rock female and a Rhode Island Red male. See Red Rock chicken.

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books on: Plymouth Rock Chicken  - 20 results

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William Bradford: Rock of Plymouth
Book by Kieran Doherty; Twenty-First Century Books, 1999
Subjects: Bradford, William--1588-1657--Juvenile Literature, Governors--Massachusetts--Biography--Juvenile Literature, Massachusetts--History--New Plymouth, 1620-1691--Juvenile Literature, Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)--Biography--Juvenile Literature, Plymouth (Mass.)--Biography--Juvenile Literature
...Squanto was kidnapped by an English explorer in 1605 and taken to Plymouth, England, where he learned to speak and understand English...killed off the Indians. It may have been measles, smallpox, chicken pox, influ- enza, or some combination of diseases against...
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Selected Articles on Evolution
Book by Edith M. Phelps; H. W. Wilson, 1926
Subjects: Evolution, Evolution--Bibliography
...is brought about by double parentage. The barred Plymouth Rock chicken had its origin in such a double ancestry. The one...barred Dominique. It is to this parent that the Plymouth Rock owes the interesting cross marks on its feathers...
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Massachusetts: A Guide to Its Places and People
Book by Frederic W. Cook; Houghton Mifflin, 1937
Subjects: Massachusetts, Massachusetts--Guidebooks
...Provincetown has had an ancient crow to pick with Plymouth. Plymouth Rock? Thats the name of a chicken, the proud old Cape Cod Yankee will snort...before her people decided to try settlement at Plymouth. Provincetown has placed a stone marker where...
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Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories behind the Drugs We Use
Book by Jie Jack Li; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Drugs--Miscellanea, Nitrous Oxide, Sildenafil
...first isolated from a chicken. In igog, a farmer from Long Island brought a Plymouth Rock hen to Peyton Rous at...Rockefeller Institute. The chicken had a large muscle tumor...inoculate another young chicken with the tumor extract...
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The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, November 2, 1805-March 22, 1806 - Vol. 6
Book by Gary E. Moulton, Thomas W. Dunlay, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark; University of Nebraska Press, 1990
Subjects: Clark, William--1770-1838, Lewis And Clark Expedition--(1804-1806), Lewis, Meriwether--1774-1809, United States--Exploring Expeditions, West (U.S.)--Description And Travel--To 1848
...entry. Clarks words here were probably copied from that material. 7. A breed of chicken called the dominique, or dominecker, which resembles the Barred Plymouth Rock. Criswell, 33. Lewis Monday March 3rd 1806 . Two of our perogues have been...
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journal articles on: Plymouth Rock Chicken  - 21 results

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Linkage Disequilibrium in Related Breeding Lines of Chickens
Journal article by Cristina Andreescu, Santiago Avendano, Stewart R. Brown, Abebe Hassen, Susan J. Lamont, Jack C. M Dekkers; Genetics, Vol. 177, 2007
Subjects: Animal populations, Cattle, Genetics, Genomics, Genotype & phenotype, Home economics, Population, Sample size, Studies
...Related Breeding Lines of Chickens by Cristina Andreescu...in commercial layer chicken 1 breeding lines have...breeding lines of broiler chickens and to evaluate the...nine commercial broiler chicken pure breeding lines...their origins in the Plymouth Rock and Cornish lines and...
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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
...Smoky Color Variants in Chicken Are Associated with Insertion...influencing plumage color in chicken (SMYTH 1990). The...locus has been mapped to chicken linkage group E22C19W28...line derived from White Plymouth Rock (DUNNINGTON and SIEGEL...
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Robert Rauschenberg and David Smith: Compelling Contiguities
Journal article by Alex Potts; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007
Subjects: Art exhibits, Clothing, Divestiture, False arrests & convictions, Sculpture
...the cavity housing the chicken, visible only from certain...ground, a terrified chicken navigating a flood...point named the work Plymouth Rock, making reference to...description of the Barred Plymouth Rock chicken: "Its...
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Southern Comfort: Food and Drink in the Plays of Tennessee Williams
Journal article by W. Kenneth Holditch; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 44, 2007
Subjects: Drama, English language, Families & family life, Food, Ice cream, Williams, Tennessee (Thomas Lanier Williams) (1911-83)
...Southern meat dishes - chicken and dumplings, fried chicken, fried or baked...sausage, and fresh chickens, along with fresh...raised their own chickens, at least in Clarksdale...Fussy, the old Plymouth Rock" rooster to make "chicken salad and dumplings...
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Tennessee on Tennessee
Journal article by Nancy M. Tischler; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: Autobiographies--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Diaries--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Williams, Tennessee--Sources
...on the train and the adventures of the chickens. For example, in his first extant letter...said: "tell Rose fussy the big old Plymouth Rock turned out to be a Roster so Grand killed...ate him. Grandfody said he made fine chicken saled and dumplins. Laura Grands cook...
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magazine articles on: Plymouth Rock Chicken  - 13 results

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Spring Chickens: Heirloom Poultry Is Poised to Become "The Other Red Meat" If Fears about Avian Flu Don't Keep People Away
Magazine article by Corby Kummer; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 297, April 2006
Subjects: Avian influenza--Economic aspects, Chicken (Meat)--Health aspects, Chicken (Meat)--Product information, Chicken (Meat)--Recipes and menus, Farmers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Farmers--Management, Meat industry--Product information, Meat industry--Production management, Poultry industry--Production management, Turkey (Meat)--Health aspects, Turkey (Meat)--Product information
...adjunct that chickens usually are...splurge. Chicken should be...breeds of chicken used by industry...cross between Plymouth Rock and White...perfected Barred Plymouth Rock breeding...that raise chickens for him...him, his chickens would probably...robust a chicken, exposure...selling Barred Plymouth Rock chickens...
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Brain Transplant for Chickens
Magazine article by David Graham; Popular Science, Vol. 251, July 1997
Subjects: Birds, Brain, Genetic engineering, Medical research, Transplants & implants
Brain Transplant for Chickens by David Graham IF IT LOOKS like a chicken and walks like a chicken, but bobs its head like a quail, then...Japanese quail embryos into the brains of Plymouth Rock chick embryos. The chicks that hatched...
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Robert Rauschenberg
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 265, November 17, 1997
Subjects: Artists--Criticism and interpretation, Rauschenberg, Robert--Criticism and interpretation
...brooms; rusting funnels; curling snapshots, pinups, calendars that survived their dedicated year--or the Plymouth Rock chicken that cousin Edward stuffed for his correspondence course in taxidermy. There are other visible features of garage...
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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
...24.) Indian Rock Produce Inc. of...variety (the only chicken that would grace...restaurants), Plymouth Barred Rock chickens (top)can no longer...White Jersey Giant chickens all teeter on the...strains such as the Plymouth Barred Rock, Brown...Thus, the lowly chicken, the most universal...
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If Only the Pilgrims Had Been Italian
Magazine article by Thomas J. Craughwell; The American Spectator, Vol. 40, November 2007
Subjects: American history, Bass, Beef, Cod, Flounder, Political alliances, Recipes, Vegetables
...Bradford, governor of the Plymouth colony, recorded the...that he and his fellow Plymouth residents were humiliated...cheesecake, and world-class chicken soup. The Chinese gave...may have come ashore at Plymouth Rock, but tasty food arrived...
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newspaper articles on: Plymouth Rock Chicken  - 29 results

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BASKETBALL: Road to Rock and Ruin in the Ring; JAY-Z AND DVDS HELP SETTLE NERVES AHEAD OF FINAL SHOWDOWN BUT IT ENDS IN TEARS
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), January 19, 2005
BASKETBALL: Road to Rock and Ruin in the Ring...MARKWOODS AS the Scottish Rocks reserve of last resort...far flung rivals like Plymouth and Brighton but the...captain. Im tired of chicken, he says. And then...with the Bears. The Rocks lost both games so there...quickly turns up before the Rocks take a peek around the...
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LUMO ROCKS LIKE A SUMO; Striker Stuns Owls with Brace as Wolves Cruise Coca-Cola CHAMPIONSHIP
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), August 17, 2008
LUMO ROCKS LIKE A SUMO; Striker Stuns Owls with Brace...1 Esajas 15 CHRIS IWELUMO is no spring chicken. He has played north and south of the...seasons pounds 1.5million signing from Plymouth, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake. They drove holes...
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Football: LUMO ROCKS LIKE A SUMO; Coca Cola CHAMPIONSHIP Striker Stuns Owls with Brace as Wolves Cruise
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), August 17, 2008
Football: LUMO ROCKS LIKE A SUMO; Coca Cola CHAMPIONSHIP...Esajas 15 CHRIS IWELUMO is no spring chicken. He has played north and south of the...seasons pounds 1.5million signing from Plymouth, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake. They drove...
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New Agent Has the Inside Edge
Newspaper article; Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore, Australia), July 4, 2009
...Division at the Noosa Festival of Surfing, but not many would know that in the same year he won champion Plymouth Rock (a variety of chicken) at the Caloundra City Show in Maleny. Bodie has a genuine great love of life and the people and places...
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Doc Produces Healthy Eggs
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 11, 2011
Subjects: Eggs, Eggs (Food), Medical practice, Medicine--Practice, Organic farming
...the eggs of the native chicken. These brown eggs produced...the commercial white chicken layers which have to...practice of the white chicken egg producers who force...Milla also raises chickens for meat. These are...mated with the barred Plymouth Rock, the male chick has...
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encyclopedia articles on: Plymouth Rock Chicken  - 4 results

 
 
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Plymouth Rock Chicken
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKEN one of the most popular early breeds of poultry. The Barred Plymouth Rock was a favorite farm chicken since...popular cross being that of a Barred Plymouth Rock female and a Rhode Island Red male...
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Red Rock Chicken
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RED ROCK CHICKEN the only chicken still popular to any large extent in the United States today for...It resulted from a cross between a Rhode Island Red male and a Plymouth Rock female. The breed recently acquired new value when it was discovered...
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Poultry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Galliformes, e.g., the chicken, turkey , guinea fowl...birds, including the chicken and the goose, were...chief poultry bird is the chicken, which probably originated...growing female White Plymouth Rock chicken, and the deep...
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Cornish Hen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...CORNISH HEN or Cornish chicken, breed of poultry that...different from that of other chickens. Both males and females...with the fast-growing Plymouth Rock chicken is responsible for most...delicious meat, is the Rock Cornish game hen. This...


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