Think On It

Another of my many obsessions

April 16th, 2007

is of course chickens. Today I found a website dedicated to Italian species of chicken.

Oadovana Riccia

The photo is of one of the extremely unusual ornamental races, from Padua (Padova) in the Veneto.

What about where you come from? Is there a website on your particular chickens? Please let me see it!

Here is one of Snowpea’s chickens. Snowpea's chicken

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17 Comments Add your own

1. Snowpea | April 16th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

Well, you DO live next/in a farm, so what’s stopping you from getting a pair of chooks, so long as they are safe from predators. Does Olga have a coop?
2. Snowpea | April 16th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

Here’s something to wander into, mostly in French
http://perso.orange.fr/volaillepoultry/sitefranc.html
3. Judith | April 16th, 2007 at 5:12 pm

Olga EATS her chickens. To have lovelies like these I would have to have a hut in the garden which I cannot have. Olga’s chickens are way down the farm road and while safe, are not part of our lives. I am off to see French chickens.
4. eg | April 16th, 2007 at 5:29 pm

This is what most people think of as our local breed:
http://paperpalate.net/2007/02/16/maryland-fried-chicken/

But this is an actual (more or less extinct) breed:
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Lamona/BRKLamona.html
5. Giulia | April 16th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

Oh wow, I thought all chickens looked the same! lol
How interesting.
6. Snowpea | April 16th, 2007 at 6:34 pm

I think you have a weakness for chickens with cossack fur hats or vintage ladies’ feather toques LOL
7. eg | April 16th, 2007 at 6:43 pm

I would like to train those fluffy babies to roll around my apartment and get all the dust up.
8. Dora | April 16th, 2007 at 7:34 pm

If those cute chicken could be trained to do their business in the litter box I would get one…hey wait! I have a cat, a ferret and 4 dogs…hmmmm…not so sure the chicken wouldn’t become a nice snack to taste something different from the usual dry food :)
9. Carole B | April 16th, 2007 at 10:23 pm

Two links for you on some of the ‘birds’ of the chicken type found in the Valtellina… hope the links work Judith!

http://www.caccia-cinghiale.com/_caccia/images/default/gallo%20cedrone.bmp
Gallo Cedrone (aka in English as the capercaille) a ‘feisty little s*d who will happily attack you!
He’s found in this neck of the Italian and Swiss Alps.

http://www.fotocommunity.it/pc/pc/display/5788791
Gallo Forcello – also hunted in the Italian and Swiss Alps
10. kevin | April 16th, 2007 at 11:20 pm

I love them. I want one.
11. MissJoe | April 16th, 2007 at 11:33 pm

Now this obsession I understand.
I do miss your Clark. Do you?
12. Palma | April 17th, 2007 at 2:13 am

Those Padua chickens’ “outfits” would make great costumes for the Slow Travel “Slowchicks”!
13. Judith | April 17th, 2007 at 5:10 am

Do I miss Clark? I have two portraits of Clark here. Italians don’t understand as I show them the family portraits that among them is a rooster.
Since Clark was a grown man when he was adopted, and it has been 6.5 years, I expect he is no more. RIP.
It looks to me that there are chicken fanciers in every country, so people who want one should Google it up and get a pair. Just make sure they’ve a safe place to be kept at night. They have many enemies– or perhaps just a different sort of fancier.
14. Leolalee | April 17th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

My students are taking a test, and eg’s first site just made me laugh out loud.

Chickens are easy to make into pets. We had some years ago that we raised to eat, and had them trained to come running when we “peeped” to call them. My MIL has a fancy tiny chicken she keeps in with her laying hens as a pet.
15. Judith | April 17th, 2007 at 6:22 pm

Wpw, Carole! Those are spectacular!
16. Maryam in Marrakesh | April 19th, 2007 at 9:22 am

These chickens are the most amazing thing I have seen in a long time. I think two need to keep company with the 9 peacocks and flock of guinee fowl in my garden in Marrakech!
17. Judith | April 19th, 2007 at 10:13 am

Love Marrakesh, but will someone not catch them and eat them? Of course all your other birds are extremely noisy!