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The Wyandotte is an American breed of chicken developed in the 1870s. It was named for the indigenous Wyandot people of North America. [6] The Wyandotte is a dual-purpose breed, kept for its brown eggs and its yellow-skinned meat. [6] It is a popular show bird, and has many color variants. [4] It was originally known as the American Sebright. [1]
In 1907, Lyda Conley, a descent of a Wyandot member, sued to prevent the sale of the Huron Indian Cemetery, a case which reached the Supreme Court.While Conley lost this case, and other cases brought by the members of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas to prevent the sale of the cemetery were unsuccessful, U.S. Congress, led by Charles Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Prairie Potawatomi), repealed the law ...
The concept of an auto-sexing breed of chicken is due to the geneticist Reginald Punnett, who during the First World War had already proposed the technique of cross-breeding chickens carrying the barred gene (B) with others to produce sex-linked chicks with plumage differences that could easily be distinguished.
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Rhode Island Whites arose from the work of J. Alonzo Jocoy of Peacedale, Rhode Island, which began in 1888.Developed through crosses of Partridge Cochins, White Wyandottes, and the rose comb type of White Leghorn, it was solidified as a breed by 1903.
Barred cock and hen, illustration from Jean Bungartz, Geflügel-Album, 1885 Egg. The Plymouth Rock is an American breed of domestic chicken.It was first seen in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century and for much of the early twentieth century was the most widely kept chicken breed in the United States.
Four colour varieties are recognised by the Barnevelderclub of the Netherlands in both large fowl and bantams: double-laced, double-laced blue, black and white. The silver double-laced variety was recognised – in the bantam only – in 2009, [11] [12] and the silver-black double-laced was recognised in 2014; [13] other varieties are in development. [14]
Our Lady of the Scapular, 2609 10th Street, Wyandotte. Located in the Mount Carmel auditorium, the annual holiday cookie walk and bake sale Dec. 9-10. For info: 734-284-9135 or ...