The Barred Plymouth Rock chicken breed is well known as a strong dual-purpose chicken, as they are a good poulty breed for year-round egg laying as well as meat production. The roots of the ...

A new study examines the historical and genetic origins of the White Plymouth Rock chicken, an important contributor to today's meat chickens (broilers). Researchers at Uppsala University in ...

"It's the meat equivalent of artisanal cheese. And it's a cool idea," says A16 chef Christophe Hille, who received his first shipment of Barred Plymouth Rock chickens last Friday and planned to ...

Cornish Cross meat chickens are a hybrid cross between a Cornish chicken and a White Plymouth Rock chicken, which means that they will not produce offspring that have the same high growth rate ...

The Barred Plymouth Rock chicken is a year-round egg layer as well as a good meat bird. Both cocks and hens have an upright carriage and are graceful, stylish birds.

In 1948 he won the A & P Chicken of Tomorrow contest with a White Plymouth Rock chicken he had bred for extra meat and white feathers, which became an industry standard. The increased demand for ...

A close cousin is the rare Plymouth Barred Rock, which is distinguished ... and then 30 minutes concentrated on the chicken’s tummy. Even breast meat, too often parched, emerges moist throughout.