Sulmtaler chickens of the former type, and the original breed was reconstituted. Sulmtaler is a hardy dual-purpose breed, kept both for eggs and meat. Cocks weigh and hens Hens are non-sitters, and lay 130-180 eggs of about 55 g in weight per year. The Sulmtaler is raised almost exclusively in the gold wheaten colour variety, and this was the only colour standardised in 1958. A white variety was created in the German Democratic Republic after the Second World War. Silver wheaten and blue wheaten varieties were accepted in Austria in 2013. Silver-blue wheaten is not yet accepted. Sulmtaler The Sulmtaler is
Donald Shaver of Shaver in 1964. When Shaver retired in 1985, Cargill bought the rest of the company. Shaver was acquired by ISA in 1988, and then became part of Merial. The egg layer business kept the Shaver name, and was sold as Natexis Industrie in 2003, and then to Hendrix Genetics in 2005. In 1962 Shaver ran unsuccessfully as a federal Liberal candidate. Since his retirement, Shaver has taken an interest in gene conservation. He maintained several pure lines of egg type poultry at his home farm near Cambridge. He later donated these flocks to the University of Guelph. Donald Shaver