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We have a La Fleche hen - our first to hatch from an incubator. She's beautiful, and because she was an only chick, I kept her with me far more than I should have - so she was very definitely a house chicken until at 2 months old she became the foster mum to 8 more incubator babies.
Anyway, so we were in France - driving back from the UK (where we're from) to the Czech Republic (where we live) and stopped in to see the town La Fleche in the Loire valley - from where the breed originates - http://www.tourisme-lafleche.fr/en/
We went into the tourist information place and they had t-shirts, tea towels, aprons all decorated with La Fleche chickens, but when we asked if we could go visit a farm to see a flock they said nobody had them any more!!!
Such a shame as I'd have loved to pick up some hatching eggs.
I think maybe we were their first chicken tourists.
From their tourist website:
"La Flèche black fowls reputation comes from the excellence of its meat. This fowl is a very old French breed known to have existed since the XV century. The colour, including that of the legs and feet, is always black.
Its origins can be traced to the towns of La Flèche and Malicorne in the Sarthe departement. The meat of this fowl is so exquisite that is was formerly renowed in all the Angevine city.
Besides, in 1831 a prodigious quantity of fowl is sold on the market of La Flèche under the name of Le Mans fowl.
This breed was about to disappear and has yet recovered its former luster. You can find again the La Flèche black fowl in traditional farms and sometimes on markets." http://www.tourisme-lafleche.fr/en/produits-locaux/
Anyway, so we were in France - driving back from the UK (where we're from) to the Czech Republic (where we live) and stopped in to see the town La Fleche in the Loire valley - from where the breed originates - http://www.tourisme-lafleche.fr/en/
We went into the tourist information place and they had t-shirts, tea towels, aprons all decorated with La Fleche chickens, but when we asked if we could go visit a farm to see a flock they said nobody had them any more!!!
Such a shame as I'd have loved to pick up some hatching eggs.
I think maybe we were their first chicken tourists.
From their tourist website:
"La Flèche black fowls reputation comes from the excellence of its meat. This fowl is a very old French breed known to have existed since the XV century. The colour, including that of the legs and feet, is always black.
Its origins can be traced to the towns of La Flèche and Malicorne in the Sarthe departement. The meat of this fowl is so exquisite that is was formerly renowed in all the Angevine city.
Besides, in 1831 a prodigious quantity of fowl is sold on the market of La Flèche under the name of Le Mans fowl.
This breed was about to disappear and has yet recovered its former luster. You can find again the La Flèche black fowl in traditional farms and sometimes on markets." http://www.tourisme-lafleche.fr/en/produits-locaux/
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