Cambar

{{Short description|Autosexing breed of chicken}}

The Cambar is the first autosexing breed of chicken intentionally created, and the first autosexing breed of poultry in general. The Cambar was developed by Reginald Punnett and Michael Pease in 1929.{{Cite book |last1=Nall |first1=Joshua |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ymhDwAAQBAJ|title=The Whipple Museum of the History of Science |last2=Taub |first2=Liba |last3=Willmoth |first3=Frances |date=2019-08-22 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-49827-2 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Greenfire Farms - Auto-Sexing Chicken Breeds |url=https://greenfirefarms.com/auto-sexing-chicken-breeds.html|access-date=2023-03-25 |website=greenfirefarms.com}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0WBMAAAAYAAJ |title=Poultry Science |date=1969 |publisher=Poultry Science Association |language=en}} The Cambar was a mixture of the Barred Plymouth Rock and the Gold Campine.{{Cite book |last=McCallum |first=Sophie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BuTvDwAAQBAJ|title=Rare British Breeds: Endangered Species in the UK |date=2020-03-30 |publisher=White Owl |isbn=978-1-5267-6366-2 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Robinson |first=leonard |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.140006 |title=Modern Poultry Husbandary |date=1948}}