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The Welsummer or Welsumer is a Dutch breed of domestic chicken. It originates in the small village of Welsum , in the eastern Netherlands . It was bred at the beginning of the twentieth century from local fowls of mixed origin: Rhode Island Reds , Barnevelders , Partridge Leghorns , Cochins , and Wyandottes .
All chickens lay eggs, have edible meat, and possess a unique appearance. However, distinct breeds are the result of selective breeding to emphasize certain traits. Any breed may be used for general agricultural purposes, and all breeds are shown to some degree. But each chicken breed is known for a primary use.
These breeds originating in Italy and Spain have white earlobes and tend to be productive layers of white eggs. In general they are flighty, and exceptional free-range birds, with both evasion and foraging skills: [1]: 178 Ancona; Andalusian; Catalana; Leghorn; Minorca; Sicilian Buttercup; White-faced Black Spanish
From about 1921 the Barnevelder was exported to the United Kingdom, where brown eggs were in demand. The birds were at first very variable, with single-laced, double-laced or – mostly – partridge plumage. Partridge and double-laced varieties were included in the British Poultry Standard; the double-laced became the principal variety.
Their small size and comb type makes them not especially cold hardy. Dutch Bantam hens make good mothers and will easily go broody. Uniquely for bantams, and especially ones popular in showing, Dutch Bantams lay well; they can produce 160 cream or white eggs in a year, though the size of the egg is much smaller than commercial layers.
The Padovana or Padovana dal gran ciuffo (lit. ' large-crested Paduan ') is an ancient Italian breed of small crested and bearded chicken.It originates in, and is named for, the city and surrounding province of Padua, in the Veneto region of north-eastern Italy.
This nest was 111 eggs. YouTube screengrab Brandon Rahe , a contractor with the FWC’s Python Action Team, needed a boat to reach the nest, which was well hidden in a hallow of dead grass and weeds .
The ISA Brown is a crossbreed of chicken, with sex-linked coloration.It is thought to have been the result of a complex series of crosses including but not limited to Rhode Island Reds and Rhode Island Whites, and contains genes from a wide range of breeds, the list of which is a closely guarded secret. [1]