Iowa Blue
The Iowa Blue
was developed in the early 1900''s near Decorah, Iowa. A folk legend tells the
story of a white Plymouth Rock hen emerging from under a building with a clutch
of chicks colored solid chestnut to striped. Old-timers tell the tale that the
chicks were sired by a pheasant. The breed was carried by several Iowa
hatcheries through the 1960s, but was nearly lost when the hatcheries went out
of business. The breed was rescued from near extinction and has been bred and
preserved through the efforts of a few breeders since the late 1980s. The Iowa
Blue grew in popularity in 2011 with a group of dedicated breeders working to
preserve and return the breed to its original type and purpose.
With its plucky attitud ...
Italian Naked Neck
Italian Naked Neck, or Collo nudo italiana, chickens comes from Veneto (North-East of Italy). They probably originally came from Africa.The hens are excellent layers and the eggs are large and white 160-180 eggs a year, 58-62 g each). Their meat is delicate with thin skin. Their subcutaneous and abdominal fat is nearly absent.
They are very rustic and perfect for outdoor rearing, but poorly adapted to industrial production.
In the US the they are known as Polish Frizzle and the liveries are the same of the Polish. Recently they have been re-imported to Italy from the U.S.
Source:Agraria.org
Source:Agraria.org
Italian Polish
Italian Polish,
or padovana, chickens are an ancient breed with uncertain origins. According to
Darwin, it came from Poland. It probably arrived in Italy in XIV century,
brought by Giovanni Dondi dell’Orologio, nobleman from Padua, eminent doctor
and astronomer, fascinated by the beauty of those chickens.The origin is anyway confused, mingling with the origin of the Polish and the Dutch, which is tuffled but not bearded. Many quotations of XVI century talk about a particularly famous and productive chicken in Padua county. The Padovana dal Gran Ciuffo has been described in the work Ornithologiae by Ulisse Aldovrandi (1600).
The decline of Padovana begun in XIX century. At the beginning of 1900 there still we ...
Ixworth
Ixworth
chickens were developed by Reginald Appleyard in 1932 in the East Anglian
county of Suffolk, England, in the village of Ixworth. Mr. Appleyard (the
inventor of the Appleyard Duck) was looking to create the ideal dual-purpose
chicken. His aim was to create a fast-growing table chicken, with respectable
laying ability. Development involved white Sussex, white Minorca, white
Orpington, Jubilee, and Indian Game. The Ixworth was a hit in the British poultry markets in the mid 1930’s-1940’s. In its heyday, Ixworth chickens fetched a top price for their premium meat. However its popularity flared quickly, and within a decade, the demand for them drastically declined.
At about same time that the American p ...