Re: Traditional Italian breeds

From: Allen (spam_at_swnews.net)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:52:18 -0800

ex WGS Hamm wrote:

> My soon to be daughter in law is Italian. Although she lives over here in
> UK, she often visits her family in Itay. Her Aunt has a farm with cows,
> goats and poultry. But sadly Antonella doesn't really know much about
> animals and to her a chicken is a chicken. She mentioned that her uncle has
> lots of large incubators.
> I asked her what breeds he hatches but she didn't know. So, aprat from the
> Ancona, does anyone know of any other traditional Italian chicken breeds? Is
> there anything perhaps not very well known over here in UK or elsewhere?
> I plan to ask Antonella to bring me some eggs back when she goes next time
> but I need to be able to gather info on breeds. Google wasn't very
> forthcoming sadly.
Buttercups are beautiful. then too are the leghorns

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/BCup/BRKButtercup.html