Exported to Britain and many other countries, the Rhode Island Red may be the world’s most widely distributed chicken breed. The breed is probably the best egg-layer of the dual-purpose chickens ...

the Rhode Island Red Centennial Committee formed, and one of their ideas — in addition to a big chicken barbeque — was recommending the Rhode Island Red as the state bird. It was hotly debated ...

When Normand Leclair died Sunday, a piece of Rhode Island history went with him. His Red ... the Rooster would open in North Kingstown. It was a busy place. The menu went well beyond chicken.

(Photos by Cathy Gleason) Flanagan, who raises exhibition Rhode Island Reds, donated 10 hens and one rooster ... mahogany-red feathers and their perfect posture may look like any old chicken ...

(Also read how a rooster ... kingdom.) Rhode Island reds (pictured) are a type of popular domestic chicken. The domesticated animals we know as chickens descended from the red jungle fowl of ...

6 ) There are dozens of chicken breeds, such as the Dutch bantam, leghorn and Rhode Island red. 7 ) Baby chickens ... on the country you’re in. 8 ) A rooster announces to a flock of chickens ...

Here's the story. A Rhode Island Red chicken — the official state bird — roams a backyard in Middletown. Our question-asker heard right, but we can be more specific. The Rhode Island Red was ...