Chickens & Curls

Chickens & Curls

What should you pay attention to when purchasing a chicken?
And if you want to breed a breed, which one?
characteristics and how should you select?
Indispensable for every chicken lover and breeder!
120 pages, A4, hardcover, with more than 500 photos!

According to the dictionary, frills are decorations without any use.
You can argue about that usefulness.
Don't you also like to look at a fashionable woman with a nice hat?
It's the same with a chicken. The beautiful decorations of a chicken stand out.
This book is about those decorations and what they look like from a racial perspective
need to see, and above all, how not to. That varies per breed. Each breed has its own
specific points. The type (silhouette), the head with the eyes, the beak, the comb,
the earlobes and wattles, a crest or a beard or both, or with ear tufts.
With a regular feathered or with a naked neck. With a normal tail, or with a long one
tail or tailless (ball tail). With short or long legs or with foot feathering.
A chicken consists of numerous parts that are naturally present in different combinations.
All requirements that chickens must meet per breed are described in the breed standards
Flemish Interprovincial Association of Breeders of Neerhof Animals (VIFFN) and Small Animal Lovers Netherlands (KLN).

But... one chicken is not the same as the other!
It is not possible to tell from an egg whether it is an ideal breed from a technical point of view
or less ideal chicken comes out.
A purebred chicken is the result of selection on many parts.
But... what should you pay attention to breed-wise?
A breed technical error will be a concern for an enthusiast...
but this is different with errors that negatively affect the well-being of an animal.
What should you look for in a chicken if you want to purchase it or select it for breeding?
What is good, what is wrong from a breed perspective and what is very wrong from an animal welfare point of view?
One, or the ideal, ideal chicken in a breed can only be achieved by theoretically cutting off the head of one chicken
cut, from another the legs, from a third the tail, from a fourth the... and all the parts
to stick together into one whole that equals the ideal... But that is not possible.
As authors, we have listed the parts of a chicken and their variations
different breeds depicted, with errors and deviations.
Everything illustrated with more than 500 photos from practice.
It has become a selection manual, not only as an aid for the novice enthusiast
purchase of chickens, but also for the breeder.

Spring 2020;

Hans Ringnalda, Oudsbergen (B)
Klaas van der Hoek, Wapenveld (NL)
Marc Lambrechts, Hulshout (B)
Wim Meijer, Grashoek (NL)