The Cambar is the first
autosexing
Auto-sexing breeds of poultry are those in which the sex of newly-hatched chicks can be determined from the colour and markings of the down. Some breeds of chicken, of goose and of domestic pigeon have this characteristic. The idea of such a br ...
breed of chicken intentionally created, and the first autosexing breed of poultry in general. The Cambar was developed by
Reginald Punnett and
Michael Pease
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in 1929. The Cambar was a mixture of the
Barred Plymouth Rock
The Plymouth Rock is an American breed of domestic chicken. It was first seen in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century, and for much of the early twentieth century was the most widely kept chicken breed in the United States. It is a dual-pu ...
and the
Gold Campine
The Campine is a breed of domestic chicken originating in the northern part of Belgium. It is named for the Campine region of north-eastern Belgium and south-eastern Netherlands. It was known there as the Kempisch Hoen.
History
The Campine was ...
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History
The Cambar was first shown at the Third World Poultry Congress in 1930.
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The breed was standardized in 1947.
See Also
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Legbar
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Bielefelder
The Bielefelder Kennhuhn or Bielefelder is a German breed of domestic chicken. It was developed in the area of Bielefeld in the 1970s by Gerd Roth, who cross-bred birds of Malines and Welsumer stock with American Barred Rocks to create the br ...
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