Body
| Body | |
|---|---|
 cranked Krüperhahn |
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| origin | Bergisches Land and Westphalia |
| year | unknown |
| colour | corked , black, white, partridge-necked, black-yellow-doubled, black-white-doubled |
| Weight | Rooster 1.75–2.25 kg, hen 1.5–2.0 kg |
| Laying output per year | 180 |
| Eggshell color | White |
| Egg weight | up to 60 g |
| List of breeds of chicken | |
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The Krüper is a race of the house chicken with European standard . In the past, the synonymous terms creeper or badger were more common. It belongs to the group of the so-called German country fowls . Krüper were mainly bred in Westphalia and in the Bergisches Land and the surrounding area and are therefore counted among the Bergisch chicken breeds . At the beginning of the 20th century the breed was generally referred to as the "Bergisch-Westphalian body" . The breed is considered extremely endangered .
history
First records go back to the year 1500. In the bird book "Avium Natura" by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner from 1555, the bodies were listed under the name "Kriecher". In the 18th century the main area of distribution was in Saxony , East Westphalia and the Bergisches Land . In the course of changes in agriculture, fewer and fewer people were involved in the maintenance of this frugal breed.
In 1896 Eduard Baldamus wrote in the "Handbook of Poultry Rearing":
“The crested hen is known to be weatherproof for limited space, good breeder and handler of chicks, as well as a hardworking laying hen . It lays around 150 eggs in the first year with an egg weight of 55–60 g. "
features
The breed is one of the north-western European country fowls . The bodies are often short with only 7 to 10 centimeters long posts. The roller shape is also characteristic. The chicken weighs 1.5 to 1.75 kg, the rooster must not exceed 2.25 kg. The breed lays white eggs.
There are bodies in the following colors: black, white, sparrowed, black-and-white doubled, black-and-yellow doubled and partridge-necked. The colors yellow and trickle-colored are in the course of the re-breeding projects in the approval procedure of the Federation of German Rassegewflügelzucher (BDRG).
The dwarf form of the body, the dwarf body , is even rarer than the body and only recognized in the colors white and silver-necked, in France and Belgium, where they are called "Courtes-pattes", also in black and black-and-white checkered.
Existence and endangerment
In the inventory of poultry monitoring carried out by the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) in 2009, only 302 hens and 73 roosters were listed. A current inventory list unfortunately shows no improvement in the entire inventory for 2013, in which all colors are summarized. Then 288 hens and 79 cocks are listed.
The compulsory stable in many parts of Germany during the avian influenza in 2016/17 also has a significant influence on the keeping of this breed, which is on the red list, as many body breeders are deprived of the possibilities for a species-appropriate existence as a prerequisite for conservation breeding.
The Society for the Preservation of Old and Endangered Pet Breeds (GEH) has included the bodies on the Red List and classified them as "extremely endangered". In 2001 the body was named “ Endangered Livestock Breed of the Year ” by the GEH, together with other Bergischer Landhüper ( Bergischer Schlotterkamm and Bergischer Kräher ) as well as the Bavarian Landgans .
In 2013, the breed took part in the Bruno Dürigen Institute , Scientific Poultry Farm (WGH) run by the Association of German Poultry Breeders, based in Rommerskirchen in the Rhineland, in the federally funded project "Cryopreserve for chickens" for the preservation and dissemination of the rare genetic material. Rooster sperm is preserved in nitrogen at −196 ° C. This preservation of the old and endangered breed also found appropriate attention in the specialist press (e.g. Geflügel-Börse, 23/2013 and Geflügelzeitung 24/2013), especially since the Krüperhuhn and the East Frisian Gull as chicken breeds from the "Red List" are the first breeds participating in the project.
Special association
Today's special association of Krüper and dwarf Krüper breeders was founded on January 17th, 1904 in the club of the Düsseldorf poultry breeding club Karlshaus as a Krüper breeders club. In 1913 the model description of the body was included in the standard, initially in a general and a Westphalian model description, which was combined in 1916. The special association looks after this breed to this day and was revived in 1989 by some breeders who successfully resisted the impending extinction of this old breed, including the long-time club chairman Erich Lindsiepe from St. Augustin-Hangelar (until 2014) / Porta Westfalica.
After the special association always held its main special shows in north-west Germany, special shows have been and have been carried out throughout Germany, for example in Thuringia, Saxony, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg since the reunification of the two German states.
research
A project is currently running in cooperation with the University of Bonn to investigate the short-term nature at the Scientific Poultry Farm in Rommelskirchen, which is intended to provide information about the genetics of the crested chicken.
Web links
- Homepage of the special association of body and dwarf body breeders with breed standard
- Alexander Taubert: Breed portrait Krüper. Diverse initiative for the conservation of endangered domestic animal breeds (VIEH), accessed on October 26, 2015 .
- Julia Trinkle, Jörg Erich Haselier: Ark for endangered races. Bettina Stritz breeds the extremely rare Krüper chicken breed in the Bargau small animal breeding association. In: Gmünder Tagespost , May 31, 2013 (exemplary breeder portrait)
- Public relations in entertainment television: "Body in the spotlight of the television studio"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Güntherodt: Body and dwarf body. History of an ancient German breed. Beberstedt 2008, p. 11
- ↑ a b Breed description body. Society for the Preservation of Old and Endangered Pet Breeds, accessed on April 12, 2013 .
- ↑ List of the races and colors recognized in Europe. (xls) EE list races & colors. (No longer available online.) In: entente-ee.com. European Association for Poultry, Pigeon, Bird, Rabbit and Cavia Breeding , March 2013, formerly the original ; accessed on April 12, 2013 (multilingual). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 2013 inventory figures. Accessed April 21, 2014 .
- ↑ "The compulsory stable kills rare domestic animals, not the bird flu"
- ↑ The endangered livestock breed of the year 2001. (No longer available online.) Society for the Preservation of Old and Endangered Pet Breeds eV, archived from the original on March 24, 2014 ; Retrieved April 12, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ News. (No longer available online.) In: Wissenschaftlicher-gefluegelhof.de. Scientific poultry farm of the BDRG - Bruno Dürigen Institute, October 22, 2013, archived from the original on January 9, 2014 ; Retrieved on January 2, 2014 (information on the first workshop as part of the “Chicken cryopreservation” project with the participation of breeders of the Krüper and East Frisian Seagulls). 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.
- ↑ Rommerskirchen: researchers freeze chicken genome: Rommerskirchen: researchers freeze chicken genome. In: rp online. RP Digital GmbH, May 25, 2013, accessed on January 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Special Association Board 2016 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2016 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.
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