barred rock

Related to barred rock: Black chicken

barred rock

n.
Any of a variety of Plymouth Rock chickens having barred feathers.
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The couple grows food in their raised bed gardens, keeps bees, and raises a small flock of egg-laying hens and one naughty Barred Rock rooster named Bruce.
In Turkey, there are six brown layer pure chicken lines (Rhode Island Red [RIRI and RIRII]; Barred Rock [BARI and BARII]; Colombian Rock [COL]; and line 54 [L-54]) and four white layer pure chicken lines (black line, brown line, blue line, maroon line) under Ankara Poultry Research Institute.
2014 Barred Rock Barrel-Aged Cider, Tilted Shed Ciderworks ($16): "Oak-aged for notes of whiskey barrels and vanilla--a perfect pairing to a fresh crisp apple," says Bystryn.
The oldest breed, the Dominique, was crossed with the Black Java to develop the Plymouth Barred Rock. From this was derived the White Rock, which today is crossed with Cornish chickens to produce the fast growing, meat-producing White Rock Cornish Cross found in stores today.
By the end of the day, the group had collected two yellow-bellied sliders, four eastern box turtles, two American alligators, two raccoons, one Nile monitor lizard, two common snapping turtles, one Gulf Coast box turtle, one black-throated monitor lizard, and one barred rock rooster.
Last April, we purchased 20 little chicks of five different persuasions (silver-laced Wyandotte, Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire, Barred Rock and Leghorn) and kept them warm and fed and entertained.
in Lindsborg, Kan and the driving force behind the resurgence of the American Bronze and other heirloom birds, including ducks, geese and the Barred Rock chicken.
Charley Brookhart's old Rhode Island Red cockerel usually started the concert with his "Cock-a-doodle-do." Next, came Lloyd Peple's old Chanticleer running his musical scale, and finally MaMa's grand old Barred Rock rooster, a family pet with two-inch-long spurs, whose dignified call completed the morning ritual.
He is ploughing some of the pounds 226million the two pocketed from the sale of their ice-cream business to Unilever into right-on soap group Barred Rock.
Co-owner Stuart Osha, a sixth-generation Vermont dairyman, is available to show off his farm's rare old breeds that range from Plymouth Barred Rock chickens and Horned Dorset sheep to Brown Swiss and Lineback cows.
In fact, on page 15, in one of the few discussions of animals, Jy Chiperzak complains that "Plymouth Barred Rock chickens can no longer be found in any restaurant or food mart in North America" -- as if that was a bad thing, in and of itself!
Their basic, no holds barred rock, that makes Status Quo sound like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, hasn't evolved noticeably since Lemmy left Hawkwind back in 1976 and perhaps that's part of their appeal.