original appearance and excellent productivity features a breed of chickens Plymouth.Chicken of this breed can be the highlight of any house.Consumer demand for meat, especially diet, is increasing every year.An excellent tool for solving this problem in the framework of domestic breeding acts Plymouth - chicken, able to give first-class meat is yellowish.
history
breed chickens Plymouth was withdrawn in the second half of the nineteenth century in America.Cours rocks white Cochin China, Dominican and langshanami crossed with black Spanish cock.The breeding was attended by representatives of rocks Dawn and Javanese chickens.The resulting long crossing, the breed was named "Plymouth" in honor of the US state of the same name.
official recognition of Plymouth (the bird in the photo in the text) was in 1910, when the American Association of poultry identified and adopted the standard of the breed.Productive qualities of birds have contributed to its widespread deployment worldwide.
breed characteristics
Plymouth - chicken meat and egg direction.Its main productive indicators:
- egg production - 190 pieces;
- egg weight - 60 grams;
- hatchability - up to 80%;
- safety of poultry - up to 96%;
- color eggs - cream (light brown);
- features - at day old in color can distinguish males and females striped Plymouth, fledge late - by the end of the sixth week;
- chicken weight - 3.5 kg;
- rooster weight - 4.5 kg (sometimes up to 5 kg);
- hatching - present;
- temperament - calm, sedentary;
- productivity - meat and egg.
Breed has approved eight types of plumage color: gray, kuropatchatye, white, black, gray, striped, yellow, pale yellow.The main include two varieties:
- striped Plymouth - breed chickens, the most popular for home detention house.Each feather bird has lateral stripes of blue-gray color.And roosters ratio of 1: 1, so they are a little lighter hens (they have the ratio 3: 2).In primaries and tail feathers wider strips.For the perfect color you need to pen runs out of ink color.Banding pen traced along its entire length, from down a sheer expressiveness of colors there.Chickens have a dark color.Inadmissible disadvantages are: yellow or brown color, blur the picture, no stripes on the primary wing feathers (pen color black), ash gray, or white fluff without stripes.
- White Plymouth must have an impeccable whiteness.There shall be no shades of yellow or any other color.The disadvantages include the presence of non-white-colored feathers, green paw, an obvious yellow tinge the plumage of the young.Only the White Plymouth Rock chickens used in the poultry industry.Egg production of white Plymouth is 20% higher than that of any other bird color.
Besides economic dilution, there is this kind of like a dwarf Plymouth.Chicken weighs up to 1 kg, cocks to 1.2 kg.Chickens have a good egg production: up to 140 eggs per year, up to 40 grams.Birds bred in Germany in 1914 and bred by amateurs as a decorative rock.
breed characteristics
Rooster breed Plymouth has the following features:
- head slightly arched, of medium width, small;
- strong beak, short, yellow;
- crest of a small, leaf-shaped, has a 4-6 is not too deep cut right dents;
- orange eyes, big;
- lobe red, medium in size;
- delivered straight neck, strong, of medium length with a fluffy mane;
- body is rectangular, deep and wide, long enough;
- breasts well rounded, broad and deep;
- spin broad, slightly arched loin, average length, has an oval rounding;
- belly deep, full and wide;
- wings tight, short;
- shin strong, medium length, surrounded by the adjoining plumage;
- metatarsal without feathers, smooth, yellow.
Chicken has almost the same features as the cock.It features a deep, round body.The steering is a bit short tail feathers, and only slightly higher than the length of the covering of the tail feathers.
Benefits
breed chickens Plymouth proved excellent for the production of broilers.From the crossing get precocious youngsters that if properly fed and content to reach the age of nine-weight up to 1.8 kg.In addition, the birds use to develop new breeds of chickens.
to the benefits of the content of Plymouth include:
- calm nature poultry;
- large mass does not allow birds to fly, so there is no need to protect the paddock high fence;
- resistant to various diseases;
- easily adapted to different climatic zones;
- excellent quality meat (tastes very tender, with a yellow tinge);
- high egg production up to 190 eggs a year, the weight of the eggs up to 60 grams;
- steadily sends its offspring breed characteristics;
- well sit on the masonry, showing no concern;
- unpretentious to the conditions of detention.
Exterior vices
By conformation disadvantages striped Plymouth Rock rank:
- dark beak (this color is not typical of the breed);
- white earlobes;
- presence of appendages on the crest or overdeveloped;
- manifestation brown plaque on the plumage;
- white legs and tail;
- presence of pure white feathers in the plumage.
