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The Jersey Giant was created by John and Thomas Black, with the intent of replacing the turkey, the kind of poultry used primarily for meat at the time. [citation needed] It was produced by crossing black Javas, black Langshans, and dark Brahmas, and was added to the Standard of Perfection of the American Poultry Association in 1922.
Jersey: Jersey [1] 19 5 4.60 [2] 3.59 [2] Has a very high content of butterfat in the milk. Lakenvelder (Dutch Belted) Netherlands: 18 5 Meuse-Rhine-Issel: Germany: Montbéliarde: France: 21 6 Normande: France: 18 5 Norwegian Red: Norway: 18 5 Old Gloucester: England: Randall Lineback: United States: Pie Rouge des Plaines: France: Pinzgauer ...
The Ameraucana is one of the few chicken breeds to lay blue eggs. [7]: 11 It shows many similarities to the Araucana, including the pea comb and the blue egg gene.It is tailed, muffed and bearded, whereas the Araucana in the United States has ear tufts and is rumpless. [8]
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The Delaware is of medium size; average weight for cock birds is approximately 3.5 kg, and some 2.8 kg for hens. There is only one plumage variety, sometimes called 'barred Columbian': it resembles the Columbian pattern, but the primaries, secondaries, hackles and tail feathers are barred rather than solid black.
An 836-pound “cursed” emerald worth nearly $1 billion will be returned to Brazil after 15 years under lock and key in Los Angeles. The 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald was smuggled out of the South ...
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.
When giant panda babies are born, they only weigh about 5 ounces and are the size of a stick of butter. For contrast, once fully grown, they weigh between 150-280 pounds. Male pandas are not ...