Donald Shaver search widely for diversified breeding stock. Local breeders, knowing his reputation were reluctant to sell to him for fear of competition. In 1946, there were 256 registered chicken breeders in Canada. Shaver Poultry became the 257th. By 1958, only Shaver remained, along with seven other major poultry breeders worldwide. The principle of hybrid vigour had been well established for corn, but the costs and time required to test chicken crosses were higher. Small breeders (as Shaver was at the time) could not afford permanent scientific staff, so Shaver obtained assistance from geneticists conducting research at universities and government institutions. Shaver
Red-winged blackbird ("wings of red"). Its songs are described in Lakota as "tōke, mat'ā nī" ("oh! that I might die"), as "nakun miyē" ("...and me"), as "miš eyā" ("me too!"), and as "cap'cehlī" ("a beaver's running sore"). And its name in nahuatl the Aztec idiom is "acolchichilli" that literally means "red shoulder". Red-winged blackbird The red-winged blackbird ("Agelaius phoeniceus") is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North America and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern