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The greater prairie-chicken or pinnated grouse (Tympanuchus cupido), sometimes called a boomer, [2] is a large bird in the grouse family.This North American species was once abundant but has become extremely rare or extirpated over much of its range due to habitat loss, natural disasters, and overhunting.
Sex-links [1] are crossbred chickens whose color at hatching is differentiated by sex, thus making chick sexing an easier process. Sex-links come in several varieties
They can be considered as one of the most successful sex linked chickens, [3] and is arguably one of the most widely kept hybrid hen in the USA. [4] The Hubbard firm was the originator of the Golden Comet Chicken breed. [5] Its other names include Golden Buff, Red Star, Gold Sex-Link and Cinnamon Queen. [2]
Vent sexing in Wenchang, Hainan, China (2014). Vent sexing, also known simply as venting, involves squeezing the feces out of the chick, which opens up the chick's anal vent (called a cloaca) slightly, allowing the chicken sexer to see if the chick has a small "bump", which would indicate that the chick is a male.
That same week, the virus infected an egg laying farm in Cache County, Utah, costing the farmer 1.8 million chickens, while another 839,700 egg-layers were killed in Franklin County in Washington ...
Virginia State Police said in a post Thursday evening that the Amber Alert had been canceled. Earlier in the day, the sheriff's office reported that the abduction happened around 7:45 a.m. ET on ...
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 ...
Maryland has recorded its first case of bird flu in more than a year, after the virus was confirmed at a Caroline County farm through “routine sampling of a broiler operation," the Maryland ...