Country chicken

Hamburger (Jean Bungartz, 1885) with a typical country chicken shape

For comparison: Rhode Island Red, an American breed with more rounded shapes

Country chicken is a general term for native land breeds of domestic chicken . The term became common at the end of the 19th century to emphasize the different characteristics of the old European races ("land races") compared to the then newly introduced Asian and American races. The original European chicken breeds are usually higher, slimmer and lighter than the heavier and more rounded Asian breeds and the related American breeds. The characteristics are collectively referred to as "typical country fowl shape ".

The term “country chicken” is also used in advertising for organic chicken breeding, but here without considering the original meaning.

"Landhuhn" as part of breed names

"Landhuhn" is part of the breed name for:

• Danish country chicken
• Franconian country chicken
• Brabant farm chicken or Brabant land chicken
• Czech country chicken
• Vierländer Landhuhn , the progenitor of the Ramelsloh chicken
• Icelandic land grabbing chicken . Country chicken in the original sense.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bert Mombarg: Houden van kippen: een historical-sociological analysis van de georganiseerde raspluimveeteelt. Uitgeverij Van Gorcum, Assen 2000 (Dutch)
2. ↑ The dual-purpose chicken. Report on the “Hermannsdorfer Landhuhn” project on: Wissenschaft.de from September 18, 2012, accessed on September 8, 2019
3. ↑ Description of the Danish Country Chicken, accessed on November 12, 2015
4. ↑ Description of the Franconian Country Chicken (Dutch), accessed on November 12, 2015
5. ↑ Bruno Dürigen: Poultry farming according to its current rational point of view . Publishing house P. Parey, Berlin 1906, p. 84