An office rooster on the third floor of Plaza One in Flemington. Why do they have a rooster?
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Roosters Around Town
various dates, most recent: August 2026
Wednesday, 19 August 2026
An office rooster on the third floor of Plaza One in Flemington. Why do they have a rooster?
Read the sign outside their door. It's because they start their days earlier enough
Previously
Every August there is a 4-H Fair in Ringoes.
Great fun for everyone - exhibitors bring their very best flowers, vegetables, livestock
and fair goers who come to admire everything that is on display. Just look at this very
handsome Sicillian buttercup rooster. The breed displays sexual dimorphism, with hens
and roosters very different in feather color. Both display the unique "buttercup" comb.
Cy at Well Sweep Herb Farm has some onagadori chickens. The roosters
need special coops with high perches to accommodate their long tail feathers.
This is a is a black-red Onagadori, Japanese long-tailed rooster, with a single comb, reddish brown eyes, and white ear-lobes. Their principal characteristic is the rooster's exceptionally long tail, exceeding 5 feet long and known to reach more than 30 feet. Onagadori are a historic Japanese breed of chicken bred in the seventeenth century in Kōchi Prefecture, on Shikoku island in southern Japan. The tail consists of about 16–18 feathers, which under the right conditions never moult.
My first visit to Meadowbrook Farm was with the Tohickon Garden Club in September 2007. There's what I would call a manor house and a collection of beautiful gardens designed by J. Liddon Pennock. Designed in the English Cotswolds style by architect Robert McGoodwin, the house, its furnishings, and 150 acres were given to Liddon and his wife, Alice Herkness, as a wedding gift by her parents in 1936 (the property split from the family's estate.) His father-in-law had, among other assets, the patent on carbon paper, quite valuable in the days of typewriter technology. The property was bequeathed to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society in 2004 and now operates as a public garden. Why am I telling you this?
Because along with concrete fruit baskets and putti and a pineapple
there is a concrete rooster, head up, throat swelling and beak open as he crows.
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