Hamburg chicken
Breed of chicken From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hamburg, Dutch: Hollands hoen, German: Hamburger, is a breed of chicken which is thought to have originated in Holland sometime prior to the fourteenth century.[8] The name may be spelled Hamburgh in the United Kingdom and in Australia.[9]
Characteristics
The Hamburg is a small or medium-sized breed. Cocks weigh 2–2.5 kg and hens about 1.6–1.8 kg,[3] with slender legs and a neat rose comb. Ring size is 16 mm for cocks and 15 mm for hens. Eleven different colour varieties are recognised in Germany and Holland, including silver-spangled, gold-spangled, gold-pencilled, citron-pencilled, silver-pencilled, white, black and citron-spangled;[6] six of these are included in the American standard of perfection.[5] Pencilled breeds are smallest and self-coloured birds are largest. There are also Bantam Hamburgs.[3][10]
Use
Hamburgs mature quickly and are considered good egg producers. Eggs weigh about 50 g,[3] with glossy, white shells.
In literature
Lalia Phipps Boone argued in 1949 that Chauntecleer and Pertelote, the chickens in Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale," are Golden Spangled Hamburgs.[11]
L. Frank Baum was keen on Hamburgs: he started a monthly trade journal, Hamburgs, in 1880; his first book, published in 1886, was The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs.
References
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