Sheridan, IL
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- Purpose
- eggs
- Egg color
- white
- Eggs / year
- ~200
- Hen weight
- ~5.5 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- active, flighty, avoids handling
- Forages
- excellent
- Broodiness
- low
- APA class
- Mediterranean
- NPIP stock code
- R56
- Origin
- Spain
Breed guide
Andalusian
Also known as: Blue Andalusian
Spanish Mediterranean layer known for its slate-blue laced plumage. Blue does not breed true; matings yield blue, black, and splash offspring in the classic ratios. Textbooks use the breed to explain incomplete dominance.
Keeper's notes
Large single combs frostbite in hard cold. Through a mild maritime winter, a dry coop is enough. They fly strong, so run them tall or covered.
From the 1910 Standard of Perfection
Class: Mediterranean
Standard weights: cock 6 lbs, hen 5 lbs, cockerel 5 lbs, pullet 4 lbs
“The typical Andalusian of the Standard must be pre-eminently a symmetrical, graceful, compact fowl, of medium size, without coarseness of structure or clumsiness of carriage.”
Disqualifications: Red in ear-lobes covering one-half or more of the surface; red or positive white in color of plumage; shanks other than blue or slaty-blue, except the natural fading from age.
APA recognized varieties
Mediterranean · American Standard of Perfection, 2010 list
Blue 1874
Andalusian listings
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Where to find Andalusian
Showing Great Lakes. Change it with the Near box up top.
Regional breeders with this breed on file (4)
Hamilton, OH
New London, OH
Bristolville, OH
Regional hatcheries that carry it (1)
Polk, 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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