Yurlov Crower
The Yurlov Crower is an old Russian breed of chicken primarily selected and used for long crowing cock contests in Russia.
Breed names
- Russian: юрловская голосистая
- English: Yurlovo Crower, Yurlov Vociferous
- German: Jurlower Kräher
- Dutch: Joerlov-kraaier
- Italian: Canterino di Yurlov
Breed history
The Yurlov Crower breed was presumably created in the second half of 19th century by
The breed was a subject of interest among
According to the USSR Central Statistic Administration, there were only 200 Yurlov chickens registered in the entire Soviet Union by 1985 (Moiseyeva, 1992). After the USSR disintegration, the breed population in independent Russian Federation, Ukraine and other republics dramatically declined. Based on the data collected in 1993, a Ukrainian strain of Yurlov Crowers (line 92) was included in the second edition of the FAO's World Watch List in 1995 (Scherf, 1995). The breed and line 92 data were also summarized in the third edition of the WWL in 2000 (Scherf, 2000), in which, as of 1993, only 205 Yurlov birds (line 92) kept in Kharkov Region of Ukraine were mentioned and the population status was endangered. The current population of the Yurlov Crower chickens in Russia and Ukraine may be several thousands including both state farms and fanciers. However, bird influenza may represent a serious threat to and decrease numbers of pure chicken breeds (including Yurlovs) in these countries to a large extent.
Genetic analysis
The breed was included in the studies of genetic diversity and relationships between various chicken breeds:
- Moiseyeva et al. (1994)[1]
- Nikiforov et al. (1998)[2]
- Romanov and Weigend (2001)[3]
- Semyenova et al. (2002)[4]
- Moiseyeva et al. (2003)[5]
- Hillel et al. (2003)[6]
The latter study was done in 1998—2000 within the framework of an international research project entitled «Development of Strategy and Application of Molecular Tools to Assess Biodiversity in Chicken Genetic Resources», or shortly AVIANDIV, that was sponsored by European Commission and co-ordinated by Prof. Steffen Weigend, of the Institute for Animal Breeding, Mariensee, Germany.
The AVIANDIV project employed anonymous
References
- ^ Moiseyeva IG, Semyenova SK, Bannikova LV, Filippova ND (1994). "Genetic structure and origin of an old Russian Orloff chicken breed". Genetika. 30: 681–694.
- PMID 9719931.
- PMID 11495455.
- PMID 12391894. Archived from the originalon 2013-02-02.
- PMID 12927074.
- PMID 12939204.
- Moiseyeva, I.G. (1992). "Native breeds of domestic fowl". In Zakharov, I.A. (ed.). Farm Animal Genetic Resources: Rare and Endangered Native Breeds (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka. pp. 11–112.
- Moiseyeva IG, Nikiforov AA, Romanov MN, Aleksandrov AV, Moysyak EV, Semyenova SK (2007). "Origin, history, genetics and economic traits of the Yurlov Crower breed". Elektronnyi Zhurnal (in Russian) (5). Moscow: Laboratory of Animal Comparative Genetics, N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics.
- Scherf, B.D. (Ed.). 1995. World Watch List for Domestic Animal Diversity. 2nd edn., FAO, Rome, Italy.
- Scherf, B.D. (Ed.). 2000. World Watch List for Domestic Animal Diversity. 3rd edn., FAO, Rome, Italy.
- Vits, W. (1994). "Langkräher aus aller Welt" [Long Crowers from All over the World]. Geflügel-Börse (3): 2–4.
- Wandelt, R (1993). "Ein Stimmwunder: Jurlower Kräher" [A Voice Wonder: Yurlovo Crower]. Geflügel-Börse (14): 2–3.
External links
- Breed history: summagallicana.it (in English); summagallicana.it (in Italian)
- Breed description:
- Breed performance: VNITIP.ru (in Russian)
- Breed photos: