Icelandic land grabbing chicken
The Icelandic Conquest chicken ( Icelandic Islenski hænsnastofninn ) is an old endangered blow Icelandic chickens .
history
When the Vikings settled Iceland between 874 and 930 AD, the chickens came to the island together with other farm animals such as the Icelandic sheep and the Icelandic horse and were bred almost unchanged for many centuries. As a result, a very special chicken loft was created, the main selection characteristics of which were egg production and meat production, but also the best possible adaptation to the harsh Icelandic climate. With the advent of modern performance hybrid chickens after the Second World War, interest in the island's old breed of chickens declined significantly, with the result that the animals almost became extinct in the 1980s and 1990s. It is only thanks to the commitment of a handful of breeders that this breed has been preserved to this day. In 2009, due to increased interest, the number was again around 3500 animals, which thanks to their unique robustness against cool and humid climates have now also found their lovers in other countries.
Appearance
The Icelandic land-grabbing chicken is an extremely heterogeneous breed of the land- chicken type , in which many different external characteristics can be represented. This means that there are great differences in external appearance within the field. In the external appearance, for. B. feather feet of different characteristics occur, or feathered feet, these in turn in different colors from flesh-colored to yellow to gray, and mixed colors. There are animals with or without a forelock , with or without a beard, and these characteristics are also combined. When it comes to comb shapes, the rose and single combs dominate , but there are also other comb types and combinations of these . In terms of plumage colors, almost any chicken color is possible, only white and cuckoo are rarer, and due to the isolated origin of the animals, colors such as pearl gray and combination colors are missing. The full bell shape of the body, which indicates the performance aspects of this loft, is already striking in young animals. The adult rooster weighs 1.7–2.0 kg, the hen 1.3–1.5 kg.
Other features
The Icelandic land-grabbing hen is a robust, vital dual-purpose hen that lays an average of 200 white to light brown eggs per year and incubates very reliably. Starting from their extensive Icelandic homeland, where they look for large parts of their feed themselves, the animals are very freedom-loving and happy to run, and like to stay in large, freely arranged areas. For the owner, this means that he either needs a lot of space to keep the animals or should keep the animals in aviaries .
Web links
- Portrait of Icelandic land-grabbing chicken Private website
- "Conquest" chicken popular like never before Icelandreview
- Illustrated details of the Icelandic land intake chicken including its eggs (in Icelandic language)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b FAO : Datasheet Islanski hænsnastofninn / Iceland of the Domestic Animal Diversity Information System (DAD-IS), accessed on October 28, 2014
- ↑ FAO : Endangered Breeds List (= list of endangered species ), 2007, p 5 ( * .pdf, 2 MB ( no longer available page , search in web archives ) Info: The link is automatically marked as defective Please review the. Link according to instructions and then remove this note. , Accessed on October 28, 2014)
- ↑ Illustrated information on the Icelandic land-grabbing chicken including its eggs (in Icelandic, accessed on November 2, 2014)
