Freeport, IL
Bresse
- Purpose
- meat
- Egg color
- cream
- Eggs / year
- ~200
- Hen weight
- ~5.5 lbs
- Cold hardy
- Yes
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- active, alert, food-driven
- Forages
- excellent
- Broodiness
- low
- NPIP stock code
- R1062
- Origin
- France
Breed guide
Bresse
Also known as: American Bresse, Poulet de Bresse (protected French designation)
The famed French table breed, white-feathered with blue legs and a red comb. Only birds raised in the Bresse region may legally carry the French name, so US stock goes by American Bresse. Finished the traditional way on dairy-soaked grain, the meat comes out marbled and fine-grained. Hens lay better than most meat breeds.
Keeper's notes
The traditional method ranges them on pasture, then finishes two weeks on milk-soaked grain in low light. They are hardy in most climates, cool and damp included. Give the single comb the usual frost care.
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Regional breeders with this breed on file (11)
IL
Allegan, MI
Capac, MI
Croswell, MI
Lancaster, OH
Williamsburg, OH
Goshen, OH
New Holland, OH
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Regional hatcheries that carry it (0)
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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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