Winsener broiler chicken

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The Winsener broiler chicken was an old batch of German chickens that was bred and further bred to obtain winter broiler chicks in the Lüneburg- Winsener area from the crossing of Ramelslohern with Thuringian Barthühnern , Cochins and Rhodeländer .

description

The Winsener broiler chicken was a white, blue-footed chicken similar to the Ramelslohern. It differed from the Ramelslohers in that it had a more compact structure, a lower position, a less elongated neck and a feather beard.

history

In order to supply the Hamburg market with meat in early spring, clucks were put in the small farmers' living rooms in winter. The chicks were raised and fattened in baskets by the warm stove. In order to intensify this "house chick breeding", heavy Asian chicken breeds, such as the Cochin, were crossed into local farm chicken lofts , such as the Ramelsloh chicken, to improve the desire to breed and the meat set. So new developed economy chickens , as the Winsener in the area of Winsen and the Oldenburg Stuhr broiler .

The Winsener chicken was particularly suitable for the purpose of obtaining winter fattening chicks (Hamburg chicks), since it also laid and brooded eggs in autumn and winter. The offspring quickly increased in meat and fat and was ready for slaughter earlier than other chickens. Adult animals weighed 2 to 3.5 kg.

The last breeding stock of the "old" Winsener probably disappeared in the 1930s.

New breed

Members of a Winsener association try to breed these chickens again. In 2008, breeding animals were counted for the first time as part of the BLE inventory.

Literature and evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Jensen: Das Ramelsloher Huhn , in: ramelsloher-huhn.de, accessed on January 12, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b The Winsener broiler chicken . Abendblatt.de, May 4, 2002, accessed on January 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Winsener broiler chicken , in: Bruno Dürigen : Die Geflügelzucht. 4th and 5th, revised edition, Paul Parey: Berlin 1923, p. 99f.
  4. ↑ Winsener Chicken . in: Federal Office for Agriculture and Food : TGRDEU - Central Documentation of Animal Genetic Resources in Germany , accessed on January 12, 2017.