Red Shaver Red Shaver The Red Shaver is a sex linked breed of chicken developed in Canada. Pullets are reddish-brown in colour with white underfeathers, while males are white with a few red markings on the feathers. It is a hardy, dual-purpose breed laying brown eggs and dressing out between three and five pounds. They have a reputation of being a quiet breed. Red Shaver chickens are used most frequently in small flocks for small farms. Red shaver hens can lay from 305 to 315 eggs a year, and are reported to be prolific producers of large brown eggs. One four-year-old Red
Shaver Transportation Company steamboat business with two partners, Henry W. Corbett and A.S. Foster, both prominent members of the early business establishment in Portland, Oregon. They bought out Captain Edward Bureau and began doing business as the People's Freighting Company. Their first vessel was the steamboat "Manzanillo", which they put on the route down the Willamette and Columbia rivers from Portland to Clatskanie, Oregon. Shaver Transportation Company was known as the "Red Collar Line." The next two steamboats owned by the company after the "Manzanillo" were the "Sarah Dixon" (named after the mother of company founder James W. Shaver) and "G.W. Shaver," named