Jumat, 29 September 2017

The First: American Chicken Breed

The U.S. is now home to half the world’s chickens, but the bird is not native to the Americas. (Sorry, but the prairie chicken, which is a native American bird, is actually a type of grouse.) Chickens as we know them were brought by early colonists and, like the humans they accompanied, the birds intermingled …

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