Sheridan, IL
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- Purpose
- eggs
- Egg color
- white
- Eggs / year
- ~220
- Hen weight
- ~4.5 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- active, flighty, watchful
- Forages
- excellent
- Broodiness
- low
- APA class
- Mediterranean
- NPIP stock code
- R1033
- Origin
- Italy
Breed guide
Ancona
Also known as: Mottled Ancona
Italian layer from the port of Ancona, black with white-tipped mottling that spreads with each molt. Lay comes close to a Leghorn's, and the dark mottled plumage hides a bird better on range. Hens rarely go broody.
Keeper's notes
Turn them out and they range well, keeping an eye out for predators. The single comb wants frostbite care when it freezes. They are thrifty and cheap to keep.
From the 1910 Standard of Perfection
Class: Mediterranean
“Neck: Long, slender and gracefully arched; back rising in a gradually increasing concave sweep to tail.”
Disqualifications: Red in ear-lobes covering more than one-half of surface; red in any part of plumage; shanks other than yellow or yellow mottled with black.
APA recognized varieties
Mediterranean · American Standard of Perfection, 2010 list
Single Comb 1898Rose Comb 1914
Ancona listings
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Where to find Ancona
Showing Great Lakes. Change it with the Near box up top.
Regional breeders with this breed on file (6)
Odin, IL
Kent, OH
Geneva, OH
South Eaton, OH
New London, OH
Regional hatcheries that carry it (3)
Woodson-Winchester Murrayville, IL
Polk, OH
Cincinnati, OH
Sourced from NPIP state directories, matched by the stock codes each participant registers. A flock may keep breeds beyond what it registers, so this list runs conservative.
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