Rhode Island Red
Sign in to saveAlso known as Rhode Island Red chicken, Rhode Island Red hen
chicken breed
Key facts
- Conservation status
- Livestock Conservancy : watch
- Other names
- Rhode Islands Golden Buffs John Macomber Fowls Tripp Fowls
- Country of origin
- United States
- Use
- dual-purpose
- Weight
- Male: Standard: 3.9 kg (8.6 lb) Bantam: 965 g (34.0 oz) Female: Standard: 3 kg (6.6 lb) Bantam: 850 g (30 oz)
- Skin color
- yellow
- Egg color
- brown
- Comb type
- single or rose
- Apa
- American
- Ee
- yes
- Pcgb
- soft feather: heavy
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- United States
- Image
- Amberbock.jpg
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- Commons category
- Rhode Island Red
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
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Encyclopedic overview
The Rhode Island Red is an American breed of domestic chicken. It is the state bird of Rhode Island. 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" (medium conservation priority, between "recovering" and "threatened") by The Livestock Conservancy. It is a separate breed to the Rhode Island White.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rhode Island Red” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.