Quincy, OH
Photo: Maria Antònia Udina Castell / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Purpose
- eggs
- Egg color
- dark reddish brown
- Eggs / year
- ~180
- Hen weight
- ~4.5 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- active, wary, flighty
- Forages
- excellent
- Broodiness
- low
- NPIP stock code
- R1045
- Origin
- Spain (Catalonia)
Breed guide
Penedesenca
Also known as: Black Penedesenca, Partridge Penedesenca
Catalan breed laying some of the darkest eggs outside the Marans, with a distinctive carnation comb that splits into lobes at the rear. Alert, heat-adapted birds that prefer ranging to confinement.
Keeper's notes
Heat suits them. In a hard freeze the large comb wants frostbite protection. Give them space. They tame slowly.
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Regional breeders with this breed on file (1)
Regional hatcheries that carry it (1)
Polk, OH
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