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A roasted Cornish game hen A Cornish game hen ready for the oven. Cornish game hen (also Rock Cornish game hen) is the USDA-approved name for a particular variety of broiler chicken, produced from a cross between the Cornish and White Plymouth Rock chicken breeds, that is served young and immature, weighing no more than two pounds (900 g) ready to cook.
The breed was developed by Sir Walter Gilbert, of Bodmin in Cornwall, in about 1820.It was intended to be a gamecock, but had no aptitude for cockfighting. [10]It is recognised as "Indian Game" in Australia, [11]: 196 by the Poultry Club of Great Britain in the United Kingdom, [12] and by the Entente Européenne in Europe. [5]
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Interestingly, the Tyson Foods Inc. website doesn't mention anything about John Tyson breeding the original game hens. --LadyIslay 18:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC) ...
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 ...
A Black Java hen; the Java played a role in the creation of some of the American class breeds, such as the Rhode Island Red. The American Class contains thirteen breeds which originated in Canada or the United States.
A hen in the United States. Cockfighting was made illegal in Britain in 1849; in the following decades, some breeders cross-bred fighting birds of Old English Game and Malay stock to develop an ornamental bird for exhibition.
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