La Flèche (Chicken)
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| Origin: | France | ||
| Year: | Around 1860 in Germany | ||
| Colour: | Black; White; Blue-lined; Pearl gray; Pissed off | ||
| Weight: | Rooster 3 - 3.5 kg hen 2.5 - 3 kg |
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| Laying output per year: | 180 eggs | ||
| Eggshell color: | White, also with a touch of pink | ||
| Egg weight: | 60 g | ||
| Breeding standards: | BDRG | ||
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The La Flèche is an old French breed house chicken consisting hood chickens originated. The chicken takes its name from its place of origin, the French commune of La Flèche in the Sarthe department. It came to Germany around 1860.
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The rooster weighs 3 to 3.5 kg , whereas the hen weighs only 2.5 to 3 kg. The laying performance of the chicken breed is specified by the BDRG as 180 eggs of 60 g each. The shell color of the eggs is white, sometimes with a hint of pink. La Flèche comes in the colors black, white, blue-lined, pearl-gray and pearled. La Flèche is also available as a dwarf La Flèche . The rooster comb, also called the horn comb, has a V-shape.
Around 1870 the La Flèche chicken and the Italian Lamotta chicken became the now extremely endangered German Augsburg chicken .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Huehner-haltung.de: La Fleche Hühner - good fliers and very agile . Accessed on January 30, 2020.
- ↑ Bund Deutscher Rassegeflügelzücher: Rassetafeln Hühner Retrieved on January 30, 2020.
- ↑ Bund Deutscher Rassegeflügelzücher: Breed and color list of the Bund Deutscher Rassegeflügelzucher (2019). Accessed on January 30, 2020.
- ↑ Bund Deutscher Rassegeflügelzücher: Overview bantams 2011. Accessed on January 30, 2020.
- ↑ Bund Deutscher Rassegeflügelzücher: Technical terms poultry Accessed on January 30, 2020.
- ↑ Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food: Indigenous farm animal breeds in Germany and the Red List of Endangered Farm Animal Breeds 2019 , p. 111 (PDF document). Accessed January 30, 2020.