Plymouthrock - chicken for household plots

The original appearance and excellent productivity distinguishes the breed of chickens Plymouth. Chicken of this breed can be the highlight of any house. Consumer demand for meat, especially dietary, is increasing every year. An excellent tool for solving this problem within the home breeding is the Plymouth - a chicken, capable of giving first-class meat a yellowish hue.

History

The breed of chicken pimentutrok was bred in the second half of the nineteenth century in America. Cours of white Cochin, Dominican and Langshan crossbreed with black Spanish roosters. Representatives of the Brama and Javanese chickens took part in the breeding. Received as a result of a long crossing, the breed was named "Plymouth" in honor of the eponymous US state.

Officially the recognition of Plymouth (a bird in the photo in the text) was received in 1910, when the American Poultry Association defined and approved the breed standard. The productive qualities of the bird contributed to its wide distribution throughout the world.

Characteristics of the breed

Plymouthrock is a meat-egg hen. Its main productive indicators are:

• Egg production - up to 190 pieces;
• The weight of the egg is 60 grams;
• Hatchability - up to 80%;
• The safety of birds - up to 96%;
• The color of the egg is cream (light brown);
• Features - in the diurnal age, the color of the males and chickens of the striped Plymouths can be discerned, late feathers - by the end of the sixth week;
• Weight of chicken - up to 3.5 kg;
• The weight of the cock is 4.5 kg (sometimes up to 5 kg);
• Incubation - is present;
• Temperament - calm, sedentary;
• Productivity is meat-egg.

The breed has eight approved species of tail feathers: gray, kuropatyatye, white, black, blue, striped, yellow, fawn. The main types are two varieties:

• Plymouth striped - the breed of chickens, the most popular for keeping in domestic poultry houses. Each bird feather has transverse strips of gray-blue color. And the roosters ratio is 1: 1, so they are slightly lighter than the hens (they have a ratio of 3: 2). In feathering and tail feathers, the striae are wider. For an ideal color, the pen should end in black. Stripedness of the pen can be traced along its entire length, the fluff does not have such a pronounced color gamut. Chickens have a dark color. Inadmissible drawbacks include: yellow or brown tint, blurriness of the pattern, no stripes on the feathers (feather black), ash gray, white or fluff without strips.
• White Plymouth must have impeccable whiteness. No shades of yellow or any other color are allowed. The drawbacks include the presence of non-white feathers, greenish metatars, a clear yellow hue of the young tail. Only chicken white plymutroka used in industrial poultry. The egg color of white Plymouths is 20% higher than that of a bird of any other color.

In addition to economic breeding, there is still such a variety as the dwarf plymouth. Chicken weighs up to 1 kg, roosters up to 1.2 kg. Chickens have a good egg lay: up to 140 eggs per year weighing up to 40 grams. The bird was bred in Germany in 1914 and is bred by amateurs as a decorative breed.

Peculiar features

Rooster breed Plymouth has the following features:

• Head slightly convex, of medium width, small;
• Beak strong, short, yellow;
• The crest is small, leaf-shaped, has 4-6 not too deeply carved right teeth;
• Eyes are orange, large;
• Lobes red, medium in size;
• Neck straight set, strong, long middle with lush mane;
• Body of rectangular shape, deep and wide, long enough;
• The breast is well rounded, wide and deep;
• The back is wide, slightly raised to the waist, the length is medium, has an oval curvature;
• The abdomen is deep, full and wide;
• Wings tightly fitting, short;
• Shins strong, of medium length, surrounded by adjacent plumage;
• Plumes without plumage, smooth, yellow.

A hen Has almost the same signs as the cock. It is distinguished by a deeper, more rounded body. The tail feathers are shortish and only slightly exceed the length of the tail feathers.

Benefits

The breed of chickens Plymouth has excelled in producing broilers. From the crossing early ripe young growth is obtained, which, with proper feeding and maintenance, reaches a weight of up to 1.8 kg by the age of nine weeks. In addition, the bird is used to breed new breeds of chickens.

The advantage of the content of Plymouths is:

• The calm nature of the bird;
• A large mass does not allow birds to fly, so there is no need to protect the high-fenced paddock;
• Resistant to various diseases;
• Easily adapt in different climatic zones ;
• Excellent quality of meat (the taste is very gentle, with a yellow tinge);
• High egg production up to 190 eggs per year, egg weight up to 60 grams;
• Steadily transmits its breed characteristics to the offspring;
• Well sit on the masonry, without showing concern;
• Unpretentious to the conditions of detention.

Exteriors

The exterior disadvantages of the striped plymouth are:

• Dark beak (this color is not typical for the breed);
• Earlobe white;
• The presence of appendages on the crest or its overdevelopment;
• Manifestation of brown plaque on plumage;
• White color of legs and their plumage;
• The presence of pure white feathers in plumage.