Rhode Island Red
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Rhode Island Red rooster
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| Conservation status | Livestock Conservancy: watch[1] |
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| Other names | Rhode Islands |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Use | Dual purpose layer breed |
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| Skin color | Yellow |
| Egg color | Brown |
| Comb type | Single or rose |
| Classification | |
| APA | American |
| PCGB | soft feather: heavy[3] |
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The Rhode Island Red is an American breed of domestic chicken. It is the state bird of Rhode Island.[2]:70 It was developed there and in Massachusetts in the late nineteenth century, by cross-breeding birds of Oriental origin such as the Malay with brown Leghorn birds from Italy. It was a dual-purpose breed, raised both for meat and for eggs; modern strains have been bred for their egg-laying abilities. The traditional non-industrial strains of the Rhode Island Red are listed as "watch"[definition needed] by The Livestock Conservancy.[1]
History[edit]
The Rhode Island Red was bred in Rhode Island and Massachusetts in the second half of the nineteenth century, by selective breeding of birds of Oriental origin such as the Cochin, Java, Malay and Shanghai with brown Leghorn birds from Italy. The characteristic deep red plumage derived from the Malay.[2]:70[4] The State of Rhode Island celebrated the centenary of the breed in 1954, when a commemorative plaque was raised at the William Tripp farm, in Little Compton, Rhode Island.[5]:2
The name of the breed is ascribed either to Isaac Champlin Wilbour of Little Compton at an unknown date, or to a Mr. Jenny of the Southern Massachusetts Poultry Association in 1879 or 1880. In 1891 Nathaniel Borden Aldrich exhibited some as "Golden Buffs" in Rhode Island and in Philadelphia; they were first exhibited under the present name in 1895. They were previously also known as "John Macomber fowls" or "Tripp fowls."[6]:11
The first breed standard was drawn up in 1898, and was approved by the American Rhode Island Red Club in Boston in 1901; the single-comb variety was admitted to the Standard of Perfection of the American Poultry Association in 1904,[5]:8 and the rose-comb in 1906.[7] In 1925, the Rhode Island Red Club of America donated funds for a monumentto the Rhode Island Red in Adamsville, and the monument is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Another monument was erected by the state in 1988 commemorating the farmers who grew them commercially in Little Compton; it is located about a mile south of Adamsville.[8]
Characteristics[edit]
The color of the plumage of the traditional Rhode Island Red ranges from a lustrous deep red to almost black; the tail is mostly black.[2]:71 The comb may be either single or rose-comb; it is vivid red, as are the earlobes and wattles.[2]:71 Birds have red-orange eyes, reddish-brown beaks, and yellow feet and legs, often with some red on the toes and sides of the shanks.[2]:71 Industrial strains may be smaller and paler in color than the old-type breed.[4]
Use[edit]
The Rhode Island Red was developed as 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. Rhode Island Reds have been used in the creation of many modern hybrid breeds, mainly due to the prolific egg laying abilities of the Rhode Island Red.[citation needed]
The traditional dual-purpose "old-type" Rhode Island Red lays 200–300 brown eggs per year, and yields rich-flavored meat.[4][9]It is included in the Ark of Taste of the Slow Food Foundation.[9]
References[edit]
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- ^ a b Conservation Priority List. The Livestock Conservancy. Accessed February 2017.
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