Went to the Louvre and saw chickens!

[johnnalei]

I took this picture from a 1673 painting at the Lourve on my trip to Paris (CCL??). I don't think any chicken like this exists today, but if it did I'd want one!

 

[Imp]

Beautiful bird.

My avatar is cropped out of a painting from the late 1500's. I'm pretty sure 2 headed chickens are rare today also.

Imp

 

[LeBlackbird]

Looks like a gold laced or Tolubunt Polish

 

[fancyfowl4ever]

Brabanter maybe?

 

[insiderart]

Looks mean!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

fabulous!!!

i love that you went to paris and looked at the chickens
;-)

 

[johnnalei]

Well the painting was of hawks or eagles attacking a couple chickens in the flock, so they are on the aggressive. There were other paintings too where I said to my husband 'look a chicken!' I thought these looked cool with there halfway polish look. Just so interesting to see chickens in a piece of art.

 

[becky3086]

Cool, definitely looks like what Polish might have started out as. Maybe the beginnings of golden laced. However, the chicks look mixed, I only see one that might have been crested, but then again, houdans don't have the vaulted skull when they are born, the develop the crest later as they grow. I imagine at one time in France there were a lot of mixed crested birds.

 

[Andora]

I have a hatchery Crevecoeur that has a rounded little crest like that and a beard, except mine is (obviously) solid black as a Crevecoeur.

 

[Andora]