Old and Rare Breeds

[draye]

I hope it is okay to post this on this thread, as far as I can tell these are old breeds also,.

I'm just wondering if there are any of these breeds still around today in an actual breeding program.

1. The Quechua (winter-faced)
2. Crested Mapuche (top knot crests without winter faces)
3. Collonca
4. Quetero
5. Violaceous Round Hackled Singing Fowl
6. Laughing Fowl

I know that the Quechua type is the current day Easter Eggers and Ameraucana and Araucana chickens.

Also very interested in the Crested Mapunche.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.

 

[mame1616]

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I've never seen anything to document the Romans having leghorns....BUT...you want to talk about similarities with Dorkings???!!!

A good book on the history of chickens is: The Chicken Book by the noted historian Page Smith and Biology Professor Charles Daniel. They talk about the Dorkings and other chickens the Romans encountered in their travels. It also talks about Pliny the elder, Columella and the 1500 years before Ulisse Aldrovandi brought chickens into the limelight of writings again. The chickens had their own "dark age" so to speak. One interesting reference is about the Egyptians and their 10-15,000 egg incubators......the first commercial hatcheries. It is an easy read.

Walt

I was going to suggest that very book. it was one of the first chicken books in my collection, and a very interesting read.

Been lurking since the first post - great thread!

 

[saladin]

Off my original discussion, but this is just too good to let go. Besides this thread ought to be big enough to handle several discussions at once.


As to Leghorns and all the other Mediterranean Class:

Breeders and historians of Games have always maintained that these chickens are nothing more or less than degenerate Games (dunghills) where selection was according to eggs instead of gameness. I for one have always believed that arguement.

The meanest chicken I ever met (no implication of gameness) was a Leghorn cockbird. lol.

 

[saladin]

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I find it extremely interesting to think that if the chicken was first domesticated in India/Pakistan then it also split from there with the Bankiva type fowl traveling west and the Malayoid fowl traveling east. It seems extremely odd to me that there should be such a division of the fowl this way. I am more incline to believe that either the chicken was domesticated in 2 different areas or that the birds contained different genetic material (ie other breeds).

Both must be considered mutations of the original junglefowl; unless there is something else in the makeup of the domestic bird.

Often I have seen reference to a Japanese study that 'proves' from DNA that the domestic chicken came solely from the Red Jungle Fowl. Trouble with that is that folks have failed to do the research on the followup of that study where it was discovered that the jungle fowl being used by the Japanese had been 'contaminated' with domestic chicken DNA not too many generations previous to the study; therefore, the study was rendered invalid.

 

[buffalogal]

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Are the Laughing Fowl like this?

 

[Celtic Hill]

Ohiki's would fall into this section to right? Im hopfully getting some this spring.

 

[catdaddyfro]

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Look up Resolution on here in the users search list and search his topics not posts, itll get you more info. He has some very interesting info on his posts, some of the breeds listed in your post, hope this helps you some.

catdaddy
just lurking here and really enjoying this thread I might add

 

[ChooksChick]

I've just hatched my first set of Nikkei. I'm absolutely tickled by these chicks, and can't wait for the next batch to hatch!

I got one fawn-colored that will likely be a wild-type, and 2 Snowy Nikkei. I'm thrilled!

 

[Celtic Hill]

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What is a Nikkei?

 

[fowlman01]

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What is a Nikkei?

this is all I can find......
Nikkei
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Nikkei can refer to:

* Nihon Keizai Shimbun (日本経済新聞?), abbreviated 日経, Nikkei, a large media corporations in Japan
* Nikkei 225 (日経225?), a Japanese stock market index, published by Nihon Keizai Shimbun
* Nikkei people (日系人, Nikkeijin?), often simply Nikkei, people in the Japanese diaspora
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