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Does anyone know when and where partridge coloring came from?

Quote: This passage is of particular interest to me: These birds had no type, and were marked like Joseph’s coat of many colors – some were speckled black and white; others had red and white in their plumage, which could be expected of a fowl of mixed origin. Some of these had five toes...

Quote: I'll have to check the library -- it sounds like a book I would enjoy, but at $85 the price is a bit steep for me! As for the pilgrims, this is from the Plimoth Plantation website in the rare breeds section: Animals were an integral part of agriculture in England as well as in New...

The question of "historical" vs "heritage" that was raised in another thread got me to wondering what kinds of chickens early New England settlers would have brought with them into the wilderness. The western Maine town in which I live was first settled by Europeans in 1755 when a fort was...