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• 1. At 3:25pm on 04 Feb 2009, DI_Wyman wrote:

  Is that a Norfolk Blue that has been dyed?

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• 2. At 6:32pm on 04 Feb 2009, U13814651 wrote:

  yes.

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• 3. At 7:33pm on 04 Feb 2009, RJMolesworth wrote:

  Anyone know why chickens are named after small towns? Orpington, Dorking etc.

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• 4. At 12:29pm on 08 Feb 2009, Chris_Ghoti wrote:

  RJM @ 3, I've been wondering about this on and off for a couple of days and I suspect it's just because that was where they were first bred, or were commonly kept, or some such.
  
  Rhode Island Red, and White Plymouth Rock, and Dark Cornish, and Speckled Sussex, and Jersey White, and New Hampshire Red aren't for small towns, just for places, but it's probably much the same for them too.
  
  I don't know where Bantam is, though.

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• 5. At 2:14pm on 08 Feb 2009, Charlie wrote:

  CG@04
  
  
  
  "A bantam is a small variety of poultry, especially chickens. Etymologically, the name bantam is derived from the city of Bantam, once a major seaport, in Indonesia. European sailors restocking on live fowl for sea journeys found the small native breeds of chicken in Southeast Asia to be useful, and any such small poultry came to be known as a bantam."
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantam_(chicken)

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• 6. At 2:19pm on 08 Feb 2009, Charlie wrote:

  RJM@03
  
  Quite a bit of info here:
  
  http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

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• 7. At 3:51pm on 08 Feb 2009, Chris_Ghoti wrote:

  Charlie @ 5, oh, you *star*! :-)

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