Redcomb Genetics

Mr Norman Lawton in a pen of Silver Plymouth Rocks (reproduced with permission of Norman Lawton) A. C. Lawton & Sons (Production Bred Baby Chicks) was a small breeding company based in Foxboro, Massachusetts that finished operating about 1990. It was latterly run...

Henry Abbot moved with his parents Robert and Agnes Abbot and two brothers Dick and Tom and sister Agnes, from their home farm, Abbots Hall in Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland in 1882 to Norfolk. They had purchased the Rookery Farm in Thuxton.  In Kirkby Lonsdale Henry...

Mr Mort. E. Atkinson purchased land at Hollywood Farm on Sept 1st 1913 with 800 good quality, American-bred S.C. White Leghorns and 300 Orpingtons. The farm was called Hollywood Hill because of the Holly trees planted by Mr C.D. Stimson. Mr Stimson was a wealthy...

The HQ building of Arbor Acres Farm Arbor Acres Farms Inc was started in 1917 near Glastonbury, Connecticut by Frank Saglio and his brothers, John and Charles. At the beginning it was a fruit and vegetable farm and the first chicken house was built from a discarded...

Administrative centre near Camden, N.S.W. opened in 1971 adjacent to the nucleus breeding complex. A.A. Tegel Pty. Ltd. began as J.E. Tegel and Sons (Eric, Albert and Norman) in 1920 with the purchase of 20 acres of land in Heath Road, Leppington, N.S.W. A mixed farm,...

The boat canal at Ocean View The official beginning of the broiler industry is officially credited to Mrs Cecile Steele of Ocean View, Delaware. Ocean View is a small village on the southern side of Indian River Bay, and was the location where George Ellis began his...

Heidi Larsen (farm manager), Ejner Boersting (breeding manger and geneticist) and Kristen Sorensen (trainee manager and geneticist) of ScanBrid Int. A.S. ScanBrid International A/S was set up in Denmark by the Turkish company KOY-TUR Holding A.S. and the Norwegian...

The picture above shows Reginald Punnett (left) with his professor and then colleague William Bateson. As their experiments progressed, they soon realized the vast body of research that lay before them and the rest of the scientific community. They started the first...

The Rookery Farm, Thuxton The Rookery Farm, located near Thuxton, Norfolk, England was purchased in 1932 by Frank Peele, formerly owned by Henry Abbot. He was the son of Earnest E. Peele who with his brother George J. established the business in 1880 with a...

George Nicholas and his wife Eileen “Johnnie” Nicholas started a turkey farm at Two Rock about 10 miles West of Petaluma, California, a few months after their marriage in 1938. The property was found to be disease-ridden and not suitable for turkeys. Petaluma was once...