La Flèche chicken

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La Flèche
FAO (2007): no data[1]: 45 
Other namesFrench: Poule de La Flèche
StandardFrance (in French)
Usedual-purpose
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    • Standard: 3.5–4 kg[2]
    • Bantam: 900 g[3]
  • Female:
    • Standard: 3–3.5 kg[2]
      Bantam: 800 g[3]
Skin colorwhite
Comb typetwo vertical spikes[4]
Classification
APAcontinental[5]
PCGBrare soft feather: heavy[6]
  • Gallus gallus domesticus
    • La Flèche cock and hen by Jean Bungartz (Geflügel-Album, 1885)
    Head of a cock, showing the characteristic comb

    The La Flèche,

    Second World War, numbers have fallen very low.[7]

    History

    Many authors date the origins of the La Flèche breed to the fifteenth century.

    Second World War.[7]

    In the 1960s and 1970s it came close to disappearing; there has since been a gradual recovery.[8] In 2011 a rescue project was launched by the Conservatoire des races animales en Pays de la Loire, the regional animal breed conservation body of the Pays de la Loire region.[7]

    Some birds were exported to the United States in the 1850s, but were found too delicate for the climate.[10] Some were exported to Germany in about 1860,[11] and others were exported to Britain by William Bernhardt Tegetmeier in 1882.[10]

    Characteristics

    Their main distinguishing feature is their unusual V-shaped comb. They are of medium size, with cocks usually weighing between 3.5–4 kg, and hens between 3–3.5 kg.[2]

    Use

    Hens may lay about 180 white eggs per year, with an average weight of 60 g.[11]: 50 

    References

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    1. ISBN 9789251057629
      . Accessed July 2014.
    2. ^ a b c Volailles: Poule La Flèche (in French). Écomusée du pays de Rennes [fr]. Accessed August 2014.
    3. ^ a b La Flèche (in French). La Flèche Club. Archived 28 August 2014.
    4. ISBN 9781405156424
      . p. 157–58.
    5. ^ APA Recognized Breeds and Varieties: As of January 1, 2012. American Poultry Association. Archived 4 November 2017.
    6. ^ Breed Classification. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Archived 12 June 2018.
    7. ^ a b c Poule La Flèche (in French). Conservatoire des races animales en Pays de la Loire. Accessed August 2014.
    8. ^ a b c Jean-Claude Périquet (2006). Coqs et poules, les races françaises (in French). Paris: Rustica; cited in: Historique de la La Flèche à travers divers auteurs du XIXème à nos jours (in French). La Flèche Club. Archived 28 August 2014.
    9. ^ Historique de la La Flèche à travers divers auteurs du XIXème à nos jours (in French). La Flèche Club. Archived 28 August 2014.
    10. ^ a b La Flèche Chicken. The Livestock Conservancy. Accessed December 2018.
    11. ^ a b Rassetafeln: La Flèche (in German). Bund Deutscher Rassegeflügelzüchter. Accessed December 2018.
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