Show X y st the blue hen chicken A delaware tradition brought about the adoption in 1939 of a blue hen chicken as the state bird it was during the early days of the revolutionary war that the men of capt jonathan caldwelle Cal dwells company recruited in kent county took with them game chickens noted for or their fighting ability said to be of the brood ot of a famous blue hen captain caldwelle Cal dwells company was attached to a regiment that fought at long island white plains trenton and princeton when not fighting the enemy the soldiers amused themselves by pitting these blue hen chickens when in battle the tha delaware men fought as valorously as these fighting cocks and became known as blue hens hen chickens during the civil war a company ot of militia organized in kent county and adopted for or themselves the name blue hent hens chickens |