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Coucou de Rennes is a French breed of
Coucou de Rennes is a French breed of chicken
The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adu ...
. The chicken was a historic Breton
Breton most often refers to:
*anything associated with Brittany, and generally
** Breton people
** Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany
** Breton (horse), a breed
**Ga ...
breed which had nearly disappeared by the late twentieth century. However, starting in 1988 with a rebreeding effort by the Ecomuseum of Rennes, the breed has since recovered. There is an association of Coucou de Rennes chicken producers that has breeding regulations. These state that the minimum age of slaughter must not be before 130 days for the pullet, 180 days for the hens and roosters, and 200 days for the capons.
The breed is classed as heavy and rare by the Rare Poultry Society
The Rare Poultry Society, established in 1969, is a British breed club devoted to the protection and promotion of rare poultry breeds, which the Society defines as breeds that do not have their own breed club in the United Kingdom. The society's ...
. Their eggs are of a cream and tinted nature.
The Ecomuseum in Rennes ( Écomusée du pays de Rennes) cares for a flock of the breed.
See also
*List of chicken breeds
There are hundreds of chicken breeds in existence. Domesticated for thousands of years, distinguishable breeds of chicken have been present since the combined factors of geographical isolation and selection for desired characteristics created reg ...
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