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
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