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Breed Profile: Breda Chicken
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes Breed: This same breed has been known by many names: Breda chicken, Breda fowl, Kraaikops, Guelders, Guelderlands, Guelderlanders, Breda Gueldre, Grueldres,...
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Breed Profile: Welsummer Chicken
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes BREED: The original name is “Welsummer” chicken, as it is still outside of Europe, while the Dutch changed the name officially to “Welsumer” in 1978. ORIGIN:...
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Breed Profile: Ancona Chicken
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes BREED: The Ancona chicken is named for the port from which birds of this breed were first exported from Italy to England in 1848. ORIGIN: Chickens of this type...
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Breed Profile: Magpie Duck
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes BREED: The Magpie duck is light, dual-purpose, heritage breed, a challenge for exhibitors, but well adapted to ranging. ORIGIN: First developed in England and...
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Breed Profile: Sicilian Buttercup Chickens
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes BREED: Sicilian Buttercup chickens, also known as Flowerbirds or simply Buttercups, are a heritage chicken breed renowned for its unusual crown-shaped crest...
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Breed Profile: Campine Chicken
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes BREED: The Campine chicken we know today is likely to be a blend of the old Braekel (or Brakel) with its smaller variant, the Kempen (or Kempisch) hen. ORIGIN:...
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Breed Profile: Appenzeller Spitzhauben Chicken
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes BREED: The German word Spitzhauben means pointed hoods and refers to the traditional ceremonial headdress of Appenzell women. The birds are known equally as...
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Breed Profile: Java Chicken
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes BREED: The Java chicken is the foundation of the American class of poultry, giving consistency to breeds developed from its gene pool. ORIGIN: The Java was...
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Breed Profile: Bourbon Red Turkey
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 6 minutes BREED: The Bourbon Red turkey is named for Bourbon County, Kentucky (the home of its original breeder, J. F. Barbee) and their rich, dark red plumage. ORIGIN:...
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Breed Profile: Royal Palm Turkey
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 6 minutes The Royal Palm is the black and white turkey developed in the United States. It’s an ornamental variety of heritage turkey, which has found its place on the...
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