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  2. Rhode Island Red - Wikipedia

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    The Rhode Island Red was developed as a dual-purpose breed, to provide both meat and eggs. Since about 1940, it has been selectively bred predominantly for egg-laying qualities, and the modern industrial Rhode Island Red is a layer breed. [6] Rhode Island Reds have been used in the creation of many modern hybrid breeds. [citation needed] The ...

  3. Miss Pepperpot - Wikipedia

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    The Miss Pepperpot is a crossbred variety chicken. It is the result of breeding a Rhode Island Red with a Marans and a Plymouth Rock chicken. [1] References

  4. Rhode Island Red Monument - Wikipedia

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    Though the second monument was never built, another memorial was. In 1954, the 100th anniversary of the Rhode Island Red, the same year that the Rhode Island legislature voted the Rhode Island Red the state bird, the Rhode Island Red Club and local residents installed a plaque at the location where William Tripp raised his famous chickens, at the intersection of William Sisson Road and Long ...

  5. Broiler industry - Wikipedia

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    There were 66 hatcheries in Canada, of which 20 were mixed, producing both broiler and layer chicks. [1] The main companies involved in broiler hatching eggs and chicks are: Maple Leaf Foods Incorporated, Lilydale Hatchery, Maple Lodge, Couvoir Boire & Frères Inc; Western Hatchery Limited. The average price per chick was about $0.35.

  6. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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    Meat chickens, commonly called broilers, are floor-raised on litter such as wood shavings, peanut shells, and rice hulls, indoors in climate-controlled housing. Under modern farming methods, meat chickens reared indoors reach slaughter weight at 5 to 9 weeks of age, as they have been selectively bred to do so. In the first week of a broiler's ...

  7. New Hampshire Red - Wikipedia

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    The New Hampshire Red or New Hampshire is an American breed of chicken. It was developed in the early twentieth century in the state of New Hampshire by selective breeding of Rhode Island Red stock; no other breed was involved. [7]: 216 [8]: 192 It is fast-growing, early-maturing, quick-feathering, and yields a meaty carcass. [9]

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