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Show KNOW YOUR BREED Blue-Game Chickens A tradition that has been recorded re-corded by the historians of Delaware, Dela-ware, is that during the early days of the Revolutionary war the men of Capt. Jonathan Caldwell's company com-pany took with them game chickens noted for their fighting ability. These chickens were said to be of the brood of a famous blue hen. The company soon received the sobriquet sobri-quet "Blue Hen's Chickens," and the state of Delaware in 1939 adopted adopt-ed the Blue Hen's Chicken as the state bird. The photograph shows a blue fowl resulting from a cross of Black Sumatra cock and Blue-Splashed White hen, as developed by the USDA. |