Plymouth Rock (Chicken)
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| Origin: | United States | ||
| Year: | before 1900 | ||
| Colour: | striped, black, white, yellow, partridge-colored banded, white-black columbia, silver-colored banded | ||
| Weight: | Rooster 3–3.5 kg, Hen 2.5–3 kg |
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| Laying output per year: | 180 eggs | ||
| Eggshell color: | dark yellow | ||
| Egg weight: | 55 g | ||
| Breeding standards: | BDRG | ||
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Plymouth Rocks are a domestic fowl breed bred from Java chickens , Dominicans , Brahma, and Cochin in the mid-19th century . In Europe, they were first exhibited in England in 1872.
The recognized bantam breed, dwarf Plymouth Rock, is significantly more common than the large breed.
Web links
Commons : Plymouth Rock - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Plymouth Rocks on huehner-haltung.de
- Plymouth Rocks on indiez.de ("Internet services for breeders")
- Special Association Plymouth Rocks
literature
- Walter Schwarz and Armin Six: The large poultry standard in color Volume 1 chickens - turkeys - guinea fowl . 7th, revised edition. Oertel + Spörer, Reutlingen 2004, ISBN 3-88627-511-6 .
swell
- Breed table chickens. (PDF file, 1.2 MB) BDRG , accessed on October 10, 2011 .