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- Purpose
- ornamental
- Egg color
- white
- Eggs / year
- ~150
- Hen weight
- ~6.5 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- No
- Temperament
- calm, quiet, gentle
- Forages
- fair
- Broodiness
- low
- APA class
- Continental
- NPIP stock code
- R88
- Origin
- France (Normandy)
Crevecoeur
One of France's oldest breeds, out of the Norman village of Crevecoeur-en-Auge, solid black with a full crest and V-comb. It was a premier Paris table fowl. The breed is critically rare now.
Most of the work is the crest. Keep it dry and free of mites, which in rainy climates means a covered run. They are calm birds and do well in confinement.
“Head: Large, with a pronounced protuberance on top of skull; comb, leaf, like the letter V in shape, resting against front of crest.”
Disqualifications: Absence of crest or beard; pure white in any part of plumage extending over half an inch, or two or more feathers tipped or edged with positive white, except in crest; shanks other than black or dark lead color.
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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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