Rotleger

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Reddish marans eggs

Rotleger are called domestic hens that lay shiny reddish brown eggs. The reddish color of the eggs is the result of oorhodein , a breakdown product of the blood pigment hemoglobin , which is deposited on the egg shell.

Rotleger offered in the poultry trade originate mainly from crosses of Marans with chickens of high laying performance (hybrids). Marans are a French breed of chicken that lay "very dark chocolate-brown eggs" or "dark red-brown eggs with dark spots". The crossbreeding products sold as Rotleger are not pedigree chickens . Their offspring lay eggs with white, red or brown shells. If they are crossed with araucana or green layers - chickens that lay green eggs - the colors mix and the new generation also lays olive-green eggs.

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  1. ^ J. Großfeld: Handbuch der Eierkunde . Springer, 1938, ISBN 3-642-91633-3 , egg shells, p. 173-176 .
  2. ↑ a b Oocyan. Retrieved January 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Frank Allmer: Proud cocks . and hard-working hens (=  country life ). Cadmos Verlag, Brunsbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-86127-674-6 , Colorful eggs: Grünleger and Rotleger, p. 70-71 .
  4. ↑ Michael von Lüttwitz: Keeping chickens (=  GU Tierratgeber ). Gräfe und Unzer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8338-4846-9 .
  5. ↑ Walter Schwarz, Armin Six: Chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl (=  The great poultry standard in color . Volume 1 ). 7th edition, revised and supplemented by Armin Six. Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 2004, ISBN 3-88627-511-6 , Marans, p. 187-189 .