Holt, MI
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- Purpose
- meat
- Egg color
- brown
- Eggs / year
- ~150
- Hen weight
- ~8 lbs
- Cold hardy
- Yes
- Heat tolerant
- No
- Temperament
- placid, heavy
- Forages
- fair
- Broodiness
- low
- NPIP stock code
- R776
- Origin
- Belgium
Breed guide
Malines
Also known as: Mechelse Koekoek, Mechelen Cuckoo, Coucou de Malines
Belgium's great table bird, raised around Mechelen for the Brussels markets. Cuckoo-barred plumage over a huge frame, with light feathering down the outer shanks. Cocks push twelve pounds. Belgian law protects the name of the traditional slow-raised Mechelse Koekoek chicken.
Keeper's notes
A gentle giant that eats like one. Grow them slow on pasture for a carcass worth the feed bill. Low fences hold them fine. Watch summer heat on a bird this heavy, and give wide roosts so the breast keeps clean.
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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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