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Word: hens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest creature in the show was a 19-month-old Meyersdale, Pa., turkey that weighed 62 pounds. Most curious was a Wyandotte hermaphrodite whose only noise was a low food call. There were Toulouse geese; a white leghorn rooster worth $5,000 (owner's valuation); an Australorp hen that laid 346 eggs last year; a flock of Japanese Silkies with down instead of feathers; a snouted, ring-eyed Buff-Laced Polish rooster, crested like an Indian chief in a medicine show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Certain Poultry | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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