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- Purpose
- ornamental
- Egg color
- white
- Eggs / year
- ~180
- Hen weight
- ~6.5 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- active, wary, independent
- Forages
- excellent
- Broodiness
- low
- APA class
- Continental
- NPIP stock code
- R115
- Origin
- France
La Fleche
Old French table breed named for the town of La Fleche, black-plumaged with a V-shaped horn comb that earned it the Devil Bird nickname. French cooks prize the fine-textured meat. The breed is rare on both continents.
They fly strong and range hard, so fence high or cover the run. House them dry through cold rain. They will keep their distance from you.
“Beak: Black, or dark horn with a small protuberance of bright red flesh at juncture of beak and nostrils; comb, V-shaped, of medium size.”
Disqualifications: Presence of crest; pure white in any part of plumage extending over half an inch, or two or more feathers tipped or edged with positive white; shanks other than black or leaden-black in 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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