Friesian chicken
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| Origin: | Friesland (NL) | ||
| Year: | around 1000 AD | ||
| Colour: | yellow-white flocked, lemon-black flocked, gold-black flocked, silver-black flocked, red-black flocked, red-black flocked with white feather ends, black-white pecked, creamed, black, blue and white ( BDRG ) | ||
| Weight: | Rooster: 1.5 - 1.6 kg Hen: 1.2 - 1.3 kg |
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| Laying output per year: | 160 eggs | ||
| Eggshell color: | White | ||
| Egg weight: | 52 grams | ||
| Breeding standards: | BDRG | ||
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The Fries Chicken is a very old, from the Dutch province of Friesland native chicken breed which the Sprenkelhühnern belongs.
properties
The hens lay around 160 eggs a year. Thanks to their small size, they require little food. The hens do not have a distinctive breeding behavior.
Shades of color
The colors recognized in Germany are yellow-white flocked, lemon-black flocked, gold-black flocked, silver-black flocked, red-black flocked, red-black flocked with white feather ends, black-white pecked, creamed, black, blue and white. The yellow and white flaky chicken has the most unusual drawing and is probably the most attractive. It is colored in different shades of yellow, and each of its body feathers has a special pattern. This is not the case with other chicken breeds. All colors have orange eyes, white ear disks and slate blue legs.
Dwarf variant
There is also a dwarf form of this breed of chicken, the dwarf Friesian chicken, weighing between 0.45 and 0.55 kg. In Germany it occurs mainly in lemon-black flake forms.
literature
- Josef Wolters: Friesian chickens. Feathered cultural property of our neighbors. In: Geflügel ZEITUNG 3/2017. Pp. 8-11.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c www.bdrg.de pdf, accessed on May 10, 2011
- ↑ a b c www.vieh-ev.de , accessed on May 10, 2011
- ↑ www.friesenhuhn.de , accessed on May 10, 2011