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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.
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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