Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!hes From: hes@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Henry Schaffer) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Snails 'n' Squabs Summary: there are squabs, and there are squabs Message-ID: <5914@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 29 Nov 88 22:51:41 GMT References: <11764@cup.portal.com> Organization: NC State Univ. Lines: 22 In article <11764@cup.portal.com>, mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes: > ... > If you know the fate of Plymouth Rock Squabs, I would like to know. I read > the excellent book HOW by Elmer Rice (1945 edition), and I wonder whatever ^^^^^^^^^^^ could you tell me more about him? If he had a chicken farm in Yorktown Heights NY before WW II and then was on the Cornell U. faculty - I can tell you what happened to his chicken farm (I grew up on a later farm on that same land.) > happened to his business. Can anyone tell me where to order squab-raising > supplies (like breeding stock)? (Squabs are pigeons; all dark meat, egg > to table in 30 days; most efficient form of fowl meat production) Are these squabs pigeons or chickens? "Plymouth Rock" is a breed of chicken, and it does make good eating at the "squab" or "game hen" size - even though it is larger than those. Often a Cornish Game Hen by Plymouth Rock cross is used ("Cornish Rock") which is really fabulous at those small sizes. --henry schaffer n c state univ