Altsteirer

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Altsteirer
Altsteirer
Old Styrian Rooster
Origin: Old cultural breed from Styria
Year: 1889 pure breeding
Colour: Wild brown; White
Weight: Rooster 2.5 to 3.0 kg,
hen 2.0 to 2.25 kg
Laying output per year: 180 eggs
Eggshell color: White or ivory
Egg weight: 55 g
Breeding standards: BDRG
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The Altsteirer chickens are a breed of domestic chicken that has been bred in Styria for a long time . The breed provides the owner with both eggs and meat. The carcass weighs between 1.8 and 2.5 kg . They are therefore considered a dual-purpose breed . As an old traditional breed, the Altsteier chicken is also listed in the register of traditional foods in Styria.

features

The chicks are very happy and they fletch very quickly. Altsteirer are strong country fowls . The body is horizontal and broad. The head is feathered and has a comb with pinch folds typical of the breed in the hen. Ideally, the rooster has a support fold in the comb that should have five to seven points. The barrel color is light flesh with a red admiral stripe on the side.

Until the standardization by the pedigree poultry breeders, the Altsteirer chickens were to be found in different colors: wild and partridge colored, red-brown, wheat-colored, yellow, blue-gold-colored, silver-necked, white and cured ( Cillier chicken ) and black. After the Second World War, the colors were limited to wild brown and white. In Klagenfurt / Annabichl, however, there was also a herdbook breeding with wheat-colored animals, which always appeared among the most successful control groups at the annual performance controls in Korneuburg near Vienna. However, this operation fell victim to the construction of Klagenfurt Airport in the post-war years. The inventory was handed over to the German special association, but from then on the traces of this coloration are lost.

The Altsteirer chickens are on the list of endangered domestic chicken breeds, the most common color of the hen being wild brown. The rooster has a greenish shimmering body plumage, on the neck there are red-brown feathers. There is also a white color from the Old Styrians, which is considered acutely threatened with extinction. A yellow flare in the neck plumage of the roosters is permitted and is not considered a defect. The Old Styrians are easiest to distinguish from other breeds by the feather head behind the comb.

The Altsteirer are particularly widespread in Central Europe and do not have any special requirements and are known to be busy forage seekers with unlimited exercise. Occasionally, cocks also show a particularly strong ability to defend themselves against predators (e.g. hawks ), which is particularly interesting for free-range husbandry and extensive agriculture and species-appropriate husbandry.

Dwarf form

The Altsteirer also exist as a dwarf form with the same colors as the normal-growing form. In contrast to the normal form, this was bred in Germany . The rooster weighs 900 grams and the hen 800 grams. The laying output is 160 eggs per year. The eggs weigh 35 grams and are ivory-white in color. In December 2008, in the dwarf form, the color stroke gesperbert was admitted to the presentation procedure.

photos

  • Old Styrian Rooster, wild brown

  • Old Styrian hen wild brown

  • Old Styrian chicken

See also

literature

  • Armin Arbeiter: Handbook of poultry breeding for Austria and the Danube countries. A contribution to raising rural poultry farming […] . Frick, Vienna et al. 1914, content (PDF; 102 kB) .
  • Hans-Joachim Schille: Lexicon of the chickens . Komet-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89836-447-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ indiez.de - Application for the introduction procedure ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. December 15, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indiez.de

Web links

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