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Plymouth Rock chicken |
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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 Rhode Island Red chicken, American breed of poultry , no longer raised commercially, but still maintained for use in breeding programs. See Red Rock chicken . ..... Click the link for more information. male. See Red Rock chicken Red Rock chicken, the only chicken still popular to any large extent in the United States today for both meat and eggs. It resulted from a cross between a Rhode Island Red male and a Plymouth Rock female. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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His research on Plymouth Rock chickens and Japanese quail was published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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