Owlbeard
| Owlbeard | ||
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| Origin: | Netherlands | |
| Colour: | Black, white, blue-lined, spattered, silver lacquer, gold lacquer, chamois, gold speckles, silver speckles, Mohrenkopf white, Mohrenkopf golden brown, Mohrenkopf blue, Chamois pearl gray spotted | |
| Weight: | Rooster 2.2 - 2.5 kg hen 1.6 - 1.8 kg |
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| Laying output per year: | 160 eggs | |
| Eggshell color: | White | |
| Egg weight: | 55 g | |
| Breeding standards: | BDRG | |
| List of breeds of chicken | ||
The Owls beard chicken is one of the Netherlands originating domestic chicken breed that from a cross of the 17th century hens and hood chickens originated. With the dwarf owlbeard chicken, there is also a recognized breed of bantam, which is rarer than the large breed.
Web links
Commons : Eulenbarthuhn - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Eulenbarthuhn on Indiez.de »Internet services for breeders«
literature
- Walter Schwarz and Armin Six: The large poultry standard in color Volume 1 Chickens - turkey guinea fowl , 7th, revised and supplemented edition, Oertel + Spörer, Reutlingen 2004, ISBN 3-88627-511-6
swell
- Breed table chickens. (PDF file, 1.2 MB) BDRG , accessed on October 10, 2011 .