Saxony duck

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Saxon duck females in Görlitz Zoo

The Sachsenente is a Saxon breed with a blue-yellow color that was first presented by Albert Franz in Chemnitz in 1934 . Due to the Second World War , it was not recognized as a breed until 1957.

History and dissemination

In 1924 Albert Franz started to breed the breed with a Rouenente and a blue Pomeranian duck . It was only eight years later that the first appealing animals came close to the desired color. The German Peking duck was crossbred later . A possible crossing of Orpington ducks is controversial.

Franz first introduced the new breed in 1934 in Chemnitz-Altendorf . Since after the end of the Second World War there were only a few animals left, Albert Franz had to start breeding again in 1952. From 1957 the breed is recognized in the former GDR . 1958 followed the establishment of the special breeding community and the recognition in the FRG .

Because of its success as an economic breed, the breed quickly achieved international distribution: in 1965 in Switzerland and 1968 in France, later England and the USA followed. Today the Saxon duck is bred worldwide, in Europe the German standard specifications from the Association of German Poultry Breeders apply .

features

Eggs of the Saxon Duck

The breeding goal of the breed is a strong but not too clumsy shape similar to the land ducks with horizontal posture, broad chest, arched belly, not too thin neck, clear colors, tight feathers and lots of down . The drake is feathered blue on the head and neck up to the closed, white neck ring, the chest is colored chestnut red. The duck has pea-yellow, orange-colored feathers. The face is drawn on both sides with two almost white stripes, the upper one extending behind the eye, the lower ending under the eye.

literature

  • Platzbecker, Martin: The large poultry standard in color , volume 3, water fowl: geese and ducks. Oertel + Spörer, 2005, ISBN 3-88627-529-9 , pp. 131-133
  • Schmidt, Horst: Pocket Atlas of Large and Water Fowl . Eugen Ulmer KG Stuttgart, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5393-0
  • Pingel, Heinz: The domestic ducks . A. Ziemsen Verlag, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 1989, ISBN 3-7403-0168-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Platzbecker, Martin: The large poultry standard in color , Volume 3, water fowl: geese and ducks. Oertel + Spörer, 2005, ISBN 3-88627-529-9 , p. 132
  2. ↑ a b Die Sachsenente , p. 43, in: Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie: Endangered native livestock breeds in Saxony. Basis of genetic diversity and valuable cultural asset. Dresden, 2010 ( online ( memento of the original from March 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , PDF, 3.46 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landwirtschaft.sachsen.de
  3. ^ [1] , Bund Deutscher Rassegeflügelzüchter eV, breed tables of large and water fowl, Saxon ducks blue-yellow