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
George Washington Shaver existence in 1910. Shaver entered the business of supplying wood to steamers for use as fuel, including both riverine and ocean-going vessels. This resulted in the clearing of large timber tracts. In 1880, Shaver, with his son Capt. James W. Shaver, H.L. Corbett (later a U.S. Senator), and Capt. Charles Bureau, became a partner in the People's Freighting Company and also in the small stern-wheel river steamer "Manzanillo", which ran on the Columbia River between Portland and Clatskanie, Oregon. In 1884 the Shaver family bought out all the non-family shareholders in the firm. They built two new steamboats. First was